loico
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin logicus. Doublet of logico.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]loico m (plural loici, feminine loica)
- (archaic) intelligent, logical person; sharp thinker
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVII”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 121–123; 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:
- Oh me dolente! come mi riscossi
quando mi prese dicendomi: "Forse
tu non pensavi ch’io löico fossi!".- O miserable me! how I did shudder
when he seized me, saying: 'Perhaps
you did not think that I was a reasoner!'
- O miserable me! how I did shudder
- 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata sesta – Novella nona”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron[3], Bari: Laterza, 1927:
- Guido […] de’ Cavalcanti […] fu un de’ miglior loici che avesse il mondo
- Guido Cavalcanti […] was one of the finest thinkers in the world
- 1980, Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 103:
- "Il che dimostra che il riso è cosa assai vicina alla morte e alla corruzione del corpo," ribatté in un ringhio Jorge, e devo ammettere che si comportò da buon loico.
- "Which proves that laughter is something very close to the death and corruption of the body," replied Jorge with a snarl, and I must admit that he behaved like a good reasoner.
Further reading
[edit]- loico in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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