fuore

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfwɔ.re/
  • Rhymes: -ɔre
  • Hyphenation: fuò‧re

Preposition

fuore

  1. (archaic, literary) Alternative form of fuori
    1. outside, beyond [a set of borders]
      • 1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 6”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 17; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:
        Lasciato avea di gran spazio distante
        tutta l’Europa, et era uscito fuore
        per molto spazio il segno che prescritto
        avea giá a’ naviganti Ercole invitto.
        He [Ruggero] had left all of Europe behind by a great distance, and had gone a long distance beyond the mark that Hercules the undefeated had once established for sailors.

References

Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “fuori”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 6, page 476

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