intinga

Italian

Verb

intinga

1. inflection of intingere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• ginnati

Old English

Alternative forms

• inting, intiga, intincga, inntinga
• inðinga, inðing — Northumbrian

Etymology

From earlier inþinga (“inside affair”). Compare Old High German insiht (“cause”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈinˌtin.ɡɑ/, [ˈinˌtiŋ.ɡɑ]

Noun

intinga m

1. cause, reason
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Annunciation of St. Mary"

     Swīðe þæslīċ anġinn mennisċre alȳsednysse wæs þæt þā sē enġel wearð āsend fram Gode tō ðām mǣdene, tō cȳðenne Godes acennednysse þurh hī; forðan ðe sē forma intinga mennisċes forwyrdes wæs, þāþā sē dēofol āsende ōðerne dēofol, on næddran anlīcnysse, tō ðām frumsċeapenan wīfe Ēuan, hī tō beswīcenne.

     A very fitting beginning of human redemption was that when the angel was sent from God to the virgin, to announce the birth of God through her; because the first cause of man's perdition was when the devil sent another devil, in likeness of a serpent, to the first-created woman Eve, for the purpose of deceiving her.

2. matter, affair, business
3. occasion, pretense

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	intinga	intingan
accusative	intingan	intingan
genitive	intingan	intingena
dative	intingan	intingum

Sometimes strong, especially in Late Northumbrian

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	inting	intingas
accusative	inting	intingas
genitive	intinges	intinga
dative	intinge	intingum

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “intinga”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “intinga, inting, inþing”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.