attemparsi

Italian

Etymology

From attempare + -si.

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)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) to grow old, to age
    Synonyms: (obsolete) attempare, invecchiare
    • mid 1300smid 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.
    • 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

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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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