pieta

See also: pietà, pietä, pięta, piętą, Pięta, and Pietà

English

Noun

pieta (plural pietas)

1. Alternative form of pietà

Anagrams

• Tapei, Piteå

Italian

Etymology

First used by Dante, with an accent that corresponds to the one of the nominative of the Latin etymon pietās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjɛ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɛta
• Hyphenation: piè‧ta

Noun

pieta f (invariable)

1. (rare, poetic, Dantesque) Alternative form of pietà
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], lines 19–21; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Allor fu la paura un poco queta, / che nel lago del cor m’era durata / la notte ch’i’ passai con tanta pieta.

     Then the fear, which — in the depths of my heart — had lasted throughout the night I spent in such anguish, quieted down a little

Further reading

• pièta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana