costà
Catalan
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈsta/*
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: co‧stà
Adverb
costà
- (Tuscany) there
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 40–42; 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:
- Allor distese al legno ambo le mani;
per che ’l maestro accorto lo sospinse,
dicendo: « Via costà con li altri cani! ».- Then stretched he both his hands on the boat; at which my wary Master thrust him back, saying, "Away there with the other dogs!"
Related terms
Further reading
- costà in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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