attemparsi
Italian
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /at.temˈpar.si/
- Rhymes: -arsi
- Hyphenation: at‧tem‧pàr‧si
Verb
    
attempàrsi (first-person singular present mi attèmpo, first-person singular past historic mi attempài, past participle attempàto)
- (obsolete, intransitive) to grow old, to age
- Synonyms: (obsolete) attempare, invecchiare
 -  early 14th century, Dante, “Canto XXVI”, in Inferno, lines 10–12:- E se già fosse, non saria per tempo.
 Così foss’ ei, da che pur esser dee!
 ché più mi graverà, com’ più m’attempo.- And if it now were, it were not too soon; would that it were, seeing it needs must be, for it will aggrieve me more the more I age.
 
 
-  1374, Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere, Florence: Andrea Bettini, published 1858, lines 15–16, page 176:- Questa speranza mi sostenne un tempo:
 Or vien mancando, e troppo in lei m’attempo.- This hope once used to hold me up; now it starts missing, and I grow too old in it
 
 
 
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Further reading
    
- attemparsi in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- attemparsi in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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