faticoso
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.tiˈko.zo/, (traditional) /fa.tiˈko.so/
- Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
- Hyphenation: fa‧ti‧có‧so
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Adjective
faticoso (feminine faticosa, masculine plural faticosi, feminine plural faticose, superlative faticosissimo)
- tiring, hard, demanding, laborious
- 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “A Silvia [To Silvia]”, in Canti, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 79, lines 15–22:
- Io, gli studi leggiadri
talor lasciando e le sudate carte,
ove il tempo mio primo
e di me si spendea la miglior parte,
d’in su i veroni del paterno ostello
porgea gli orecchi al suon della tua voce,
ed alla man veloce
che percorrea la faticosa tela.- I would leave my intoxicating studies, and the turned-down pages, where my young life, the best of me, was left, and from the balcony of my father’s house strain to catch the sound of your voice, and your hand, quick, running over the tiring loom.
- (literary):
- hard-working, industrious
- Synonym: laborioso
- 1530, Pietro Bembo, “Libro primo, Capitolo I [First Book, 1st chapter]”, in Gli asolani, published 1989:
- Suole a’ faticosi navicanti esser caro, quando la notte, da oscuro e tempestoso nembo assaliti e sospinti, né stella scorgono, né cosa alcuna appar loro che regga la lor via, col segno della indiana pietra ritrovare la tramontana
- For the hard-working seamen, it is usually valuable, when during the night they're attacked and pushed by a dark stormy cloud, not seeing any star or other thing to tell them their way, to refind the North with the sign of the Indian stone
- 1581, Torquato Tasso, “Canto 14”, in Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered], Erasmo Viotti, page 324:
- Apre alhora le luci il Pio Buglione:
E nato vede, e già cresciuto il giorno;
Onde lascia i riposi: e sovra pone
L'armi à le membra faticose intorno.- So the pious Buglione opens his eyes, and sees the day already born and grown. Thus he leaves the resting, and puts the armor around the industrious limbs.
- fatigued, tired
- Synonym: affaticato
- 1504, Jacopo Sannazaro, Arcadia, published 1553, page 12:
- Io veggio un huom, se non è sterpo, o sasso;
Egli è pur huom, che dorme in quella valle
Disteso in terra faticoso et lasso.- I see a man, if that's not a shrub, or a rock. It is a man, sleeping in that valley, lying on the ground, fatigued and tired.
- troubled, tormented
- Synonyms: tormentato, travagliato
- 1892, Gabriele D'Annunzio, “In San Pietro”, in Elegie romane, page 109:
- Sopra la croce il grande miracolo pende, che in terra
offre a la faticosa anima umana un cielo.- Above the cross, towers over the great miracle, which on the earth offers a heaven to the tormented human soul.
- hard-working, industrious
Derived terms
Further reading
- faticoso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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