brividio
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bri.viˈdi.o/
- Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: bri‧vi‧dì‧o
Noun
brividio m (plural brividii)
- (literary) an intense, prolonged shiver
- Gli sopravvenne ¶ per le membra immortali un brividio
- a shiver crept up his immortal limbs
- (literary, figurative) flickering (of lights)
- Nell’alta notte agostana ¶ sotto il perlato brividio, ¶ fuori dalla mia tana ¶ inginocchiato, riconobbi Iddio.
- In the deep August night, under the pearly flickering [of the stars], kneeling outside of my den, I recognized God.
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