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etternale

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /et.terˈna.le/
  • Rhymes: -ale
  • Hyphenation: et‧ter‧nà‧le

Adjective

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etternale (plural etternali)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of eternale
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIV”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[1], lines 31–33, 37; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Quali Alessandro in quelle parti calde
      d'Indïa vide sopra 'l süo stuolo
      fiamme cadere infino a terra salde,
      []
      tale scendeva l’etternale ardore
      As Alexander, in those torrid parts
      of India, beheld upon his host
      flames fall unbroken till they reached the ground,
      []
      thus was descending the eternal heat

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