sciaurato

• IPA^(key): ^*/ʃawˈra.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: sciau‧rà‧to

sciaurato (feminine sciaurata, masculine plural sciaurati, feminine plural sciaurate)

1. (poetic or dialectal) Alternative form of sciagurato
   • early 14^th century, Dante, “Canto III”, in Inferno, lines 63–66:

     Questi sciaurati, che mai non fur vivi ¶ erano ignudi e stimolati molto ¶ da mosconi e da vespe ch'eran ivi.

     These wretches, who never had been alive were naked and bitten a great deal by mosquitoes and by wasps which were in that place.

• sciagurato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana