ammogliarsi

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /am.moʎˈʎar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: am‧mo‧gliàr‧si

Verb

ammogliàrsi (first-person singular present mi ammóglio, first-person singular past historic mi ammogliài, past participle ammogliàto)

  1. to get married (with a woman)
  2. (figurative) to copulate [+ con (object) = with]
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto I, page 14, lines 100–102:
      Molti son li animali a cui s'ammoglia, ¶ e più saranno ancora, infin che 'l veltro ¶ verrà, che la farà morir con doglia.
      Many are the animals with whom she [a she-wolf] copulates, ¶ and more they will be still, until the greyhound ¶ comes, who will make her die in pain.

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