oggimai
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɔd.d͡ʒiˈmaj/[1]
- Rhymes: -aj
- Hyphenation: og‧gi‧mài
Adverb
oggimai
- (obsolete, literary) by now, by this time, now, at this point, by then
- mid 1300s–mid 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.
Related terms
References
- oggimai in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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