etternale

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /et.terˈna.le/
  • Rhymes: -ale
  • Hyphenation: et‧ter‧nà‧le

Adjective

etternale (plural etternali)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of eternale
    • early 14th century, Dante, “Canto XIV”, in Inferno, lines 31–33, 37:
      Quali Alessandro in quelle parti calde
      d'Indïa vide sopra 'l süo stuolo
      fiamme cadere infino a terra salde,
      […]
      tale scendeva l’etternale ardore
      As Alexander, in those torrid parts of India, beheld upon his host flames fall unbroken till they reached the ground, thus was descending the eternal heat

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