attemparsi
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /at.temˈpar.si/
- Rhymes: -arsi
- Hyphenation: at‧tem‧pàr‧si
Verb
attempàrsi (first-person singular present mi attèmpo, first-person singular past historic mi attempài, past participle attempàto)
- (obsolete, intransitive) to grow old, to age
- Synonyms: (obsolete) attempare, invecchiare
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVI”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 10–12; 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:
- E se già fosse, non saria per tempo.
Così foss’ ei, da che pur esser dee!
ché più mi graverà, com’ più m’attempo.- And if it now were, it were not too soon;
would that it were, seeing it needs must be,
for it will aggrieve me more the more I age.
- And if it now were, it were not too soon;
- 1374, Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere, Florence: Andrea Bettini, published 1858, page 176, lines 15–16:
- Questa speranza mi sostenne un tempo:
Or vien mancando, e troppo in lei m’attempo.- This hope once used to hold me up;
now it starts missing, and I grow too old in it
- This hope once used to hold me up;
Conjugation
Further reading
- attemparsi in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- attemparsi in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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