oggimai

Italian

Etymology

From oggi (today) + mai (never”, “ever).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɔd.d͡ʒiˈmaj/[1]
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Hyphenation: og‧gi‧mài

Adverb

oggimai

  1. (obsolete, literary) by now, by this time, now, at this point, by then
    Synonyms: oramai, ormai
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 25–27; 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:
      Io non mori' e non rimasi vivo;
      pensa oggimai per te, s'hai fior d'ingegno,
      qual io divenni, d'uno e d'altro privo.
      I did not die, and I did not remain alive; think for yourself now, if you have a bit of wisdom, what I became, deprived of both.

References

  1. oggimai in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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