Nembrotto
See also: nembrotto
Italian
Etymology
From Nimrod, with final devoicing, and the development of an epenthetic -b- and a paragogic -o.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nemˈbrɔt.to/
- Rhymes: -ɔtto
- Hyphenation: Nem‧bròt‧to
Proper noun
Nembrotto m
- Alternative form of Nimrod
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXI”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 76–78; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Poi disse a me: «Elli stessi s'accusa;
questi è Nembrotto, per lo cui mal coto
pur un linguaggio nel mondo non s'usa.»- Then said to me: "He accuses himself; this one is Nimrod, by whose evil thought one language in the world is not still used."
- 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro primo, Ⅱ Come per la confusione della torre di Babello si cominciò ad abitare il mondo. [First Book, 2 - How the world started being inhabited due to the confusion of the Tower of Babel]”, in Giovanni Porta, editor, Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle], Ugo Guanda, published 1991:
- Noi troviamo per le storie della Bibbia e per quelle degli Asseriani che Nembrotto il gigante fu il primo re, overo rettore e ragunatore di congregazione di genti
- Through the stories of the Bible, and those of the Assyrians, we find that Nimrod the giant was the first king, that is, ruler and gatherer of a congregation of people
Derived terms
Further reading
- Nembrotto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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