sartore
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Expected outcome of Latin sartōrem, while sarto is from the nominative.
Noun
[edit]sartore m (plural sartori, feminine sartora)
- (archaic) tailor
- Synonym: sarto
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XV”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 20–21; 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:
- […] e sì ver’ noi aguzzavan le ciglia / come ’l vecchio sartor fa ne la cruna.
- […] and they sharpened their eyes towards us like an old tailor does at the needle's eye.
Derived terms
[edit]- sartoria (“tailor's”)
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]sartōre