liquore
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Italian
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]liquore m (plural liquori)
- (literary) liquid
- Synonym: liquido
- 13th century, “Dell'Origano”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura[1], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 346:
- prendasi le sue foglie, co’ fiori, e si mettano in testo ben caldo, sanza alcun liquore, in un sacchetto
- Take its [oregano's] leaves, and flowers, and put them in a well-heated pot, without any liquid, inside a small bag
- 1343, Giovanni Boccaccio, Amorosa visione[2], published 1833, page 45:
- Ma le tue molte tirano il liquore ¶ Mescolato col limo, e tabefatte ¶ Corrompon l’altre, e muoion con dolore.
- But many of yours [sheep] lap up the liquid mixed with mud, and, [having become] tainted, they infect the others, and die painfully
- c. 1477, Lorenzo de' Medici, Rime, collected in Opere, published 1913, page 67:
- Il fonte sol, che ’l santo liquor geme, ¶ spegne la sete nostra: o liquor santo, ¶ spegni la sete mia che troppo prieme.
- Only the spring which leaks the holy liquid quenches our thirst: o holy liquid, quench my thirst, which is too pressing
- 1668, Francesco Redi, Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl’insetti[4], Florence, page 77:
- avea forse consumato tutto quel velenoso liquore che stagna nella cavità del pungiglione e non avea per ancora avuto tanto tempo da poterne rigenerare
- Perhaps it [the scorpion] had used up all that poisonous liquid stagnating in the sting's cavity, and hadn't yet had enough time to regenerate it
- liqueur
- (in the plural) spirits
- 1804, Cesare Beccaria, Elementi di economia pubblica[5], collected in Opere di Cesare Beccaria – volume secondo, Milan: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, published 1822, page 111:
- sonovi gli olii e liquori, ed altri generi che immediatamente si consumano
- There are oils and spirits, and other products which are consumed immediately
- (medicine) tincture
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- liquore in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- liquore in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- liquore in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- liquore in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- liquore in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- liquore in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
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[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /liˈkʷoː.re/, [lʲɪˈkʷoːrɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /liˈkwo.re/, [liˈkwɔːre]
Noun
[edit]liquōre
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]liquore
- Alternative form of licour
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