miseramente

Italian

Etymology

From misero, from Latin miserum. By surface analysis, misera (“unhappy”, “bleak”) +‎ -mente (“-ly”, adverbial derivational suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ze.raˈmen.te/
• Rhymes: -ente
• Hyphenation: mi‧se‧ra‧mén‧te

Adverb

miseramente

1. miserably, wretchedly, pitifully
   • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XIV, pp. 210, vv. 19-20:

     D'anime nude vidi molte gregge ¶ che piangean tutte assai miseramente, [...]

     Of naked souls beheld I many herds ¶ who all were weeping very miserably, [...]

Related terms

• misero

Anagrams

• ammiserente