ricrearsi
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[edit]ricreàrsi (first-person singular present mi ricrèo, first-person singular past historic mi ricreài, past participle ricreàto)
- reflexive of ricreare
- 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory][1], lines 94–96; 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:
- Rodolfo imperador fu, che potea
sanar le piaghe c'hanno Italia morta,
sì che tardi per altri si ricrea.- He once was Emperor Rudolf, who could have healed the wounds that have killed Italy, so that now through someone else she restores herself, too late.
- (obsolete, intransitive) to take refreshment, to refresh
- (intransitive) to relax oneself
- (literary, intransitive) to reanimate oneself