loico

Italian

FWOTD – 13 January 2023

Etymology

From Latin logicus. Doublet of logico.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɔj.ko/
  • Rhymes: -ɔjko
  • Hyphenation: lòi‧co

Noun

loico m (plural loici, feminine loica)

  1. (archaic) intelligent, logical person; sharp thinker
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 121–123; 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:
      Oh me dolente! come mi riscossi
      quando mi prese dicendomi: "Forse
      tu non pensavi ch’io löico fossi!".
      O miserable me! how I did shudder
      when he seized me, saying: 'Perhaps
      you did not think that I was a reasoner!'
    • 13491353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata sesta – Novella nona”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:
      Guido [] de’ Cavalcanti [] fu un de’ miglior loici che avesse il mondo
      Guido Cavalcanti [] was one of the finest thinkers in the world
    • 1980, Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 103:
      "Il che dimostra che il riso è cosa assai vicina alla morte e alla corruzione del corpo," ribatté in un ringhio Jorge, e devo ammettere che si comportò da buon loico.
      "Which proves that laughter is something very close to the death and corruption of the body," replied Jorge with a snarl, and I must admit that he behaved like a good reasoner.

Further reading

  • loico in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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