eternale
Italian
Alternative forms
- etternale (archaic)
Etymology
From Late Latin aeternālis (“eternal”). By surface analysis, eterno (“eternity”) + -ale.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.terˈna.le/
- Rhymes: -ale
- Hyphenation: e‧ter‧nà‧le
Adjective
eternale (plural eternali)
- (obsolete, poetic) eternal
- Synonym: eterno
- 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata quinta – Novella ottava”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:
- […] io un dì, con questo stocco […] m’uccisi, e sono alle pene eternali dannato.
- One day, with this rapier […] I killed myself, and I'm damned to the eternal punishment.
Derived terms
Further reading
- eternale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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