insalarsi
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From insalare (“to salt”) + -si (“oneself”, enclitic reflexive pronoun).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]insalàrsi (first-person singular present mi insàlo, first-person singular past historic mi insalài, past participle insalàto)
- reflexive of insalare
- (intransitive, poetic) to become salt or saline (of a river)
- 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory][1], lines 100–102; 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:
- Ond’ io, ch’era ora a la marina vòlto
dove l’acqua di Tevero s’insala,
benignamente fu’ da lui ricolto.- Whence I, who now had turned unto that shore
where salt the waters of the Tiber grow,
benignantly by him have been received.
- Whence I, who now had turned unto that shore