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subbietto

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /subˈbjɛt.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛtto
  • Hyphenation: sub‧bièt‧to

Noun

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subbietto m (plural subbietti)

  1. Alternative form of subietto
    • late 13th century [5th century], Bono Giamboni, transl., Dell'arte della guerra [On the art of war], translation of Epitoma reī mīlitāris by Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (in Late Latin); republished as “Prefazione o dedica dell’autore [Preface, or note of the author]”, in Dell'arte della guerra libri IV[1], Florence: Giovanni Marenigh, 1815, page 5:
      a neuno si conviene così le buone cose sapere, ed assai, come al prencipe, la cui dottrina a tutti i subbietti può pro fare
      [original: neque quemquam magis decet vel meliōra scīre, vel plūra quam prī̆ncipem, cuius doctrīna omnibus potest prodesse subiectīs]
      No one is as fit to know good things as a prince, whose doctrine can do good to all his subjects