aprico
Italian
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editaprico (feminine aprica, masculine plural aprici, feminine plural apriche) (poetic)
- exposed to the sun
- 1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “CCCIII — Amor, che meco al buon tempo ti stavi”, in Il Canzoniere, line 6; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:
- […] valli chiuse, alti colli et piagge apriche, […]
- […] closed valleys, high hills and open beaches, […]
- 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “Ⅶ. Alla primavera [7. To Spring]”, in Canti[1], Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 35:
- […] se tu pur vivi,
e se de’ nostri affanni
cosa veruna in ciel, se nell’aprica
terra s’alberga o nell’equoreo seno,
pietosa no, ma spettatrice almeno.- if you still live, if there’s truly one thing at least in heaven, or on the naked earth, or in the sea bosom, that may not pity but observes our pain.
- (rare) clear, bright, serene
- 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “Ⅷ. Inno ai patriarchi [8. Hymn to the Patriarchs]”, in Canti[2], Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 37:
- […] gl’inarati colli
solo e muto ascendea l’aprico raggio
di Febo e l’aurea Luna. […]- silent and alone the clear rays of Phoebus and the golden moon climbed the uncultivated hills.
- sun-loving
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editFrom aprīcus.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈpriː.koː/, [äˈpriːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈpri.ko/, [äˈpriːko]
Verb
editaprīcō (present infinitive aprīcāre, perfect active aprīcāvī, supine aprīcātum); first conjugation
- (Late Latin) to warm in the sun
Conjugation
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editaprīcō
References
edit- “aprico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aprico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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