scorno
Appearance
See also: scornò
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *excornum. By surface analysis, deverbal from scornarsi (“to make a fool of oneself”) + -o. Compare Neapolitan scuorno.
Noun
[edit]scorno m (plural scorni)
- humiliation, shame
- 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory][1], lines 31–33; 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:
- […] esser di marmo candido e addorno / d’intagli sì, che non pur Policleto, / ma la natura lì avrebbe scorno.
- […] to be of white marble and so adorned with sculptures, that not only Polycletus, but nature itself had there been put to shame.
Further reading
[edit]- scòrno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]scorno
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔrno
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