rovente

Italian

Etymology

From Latin rubentem, present active participle of rubeō (“to be red; to become red”). Doublet of rubente.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /roˈvɛn.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnte
  • Hyphenation: ro‧vèn‧te

Adjective

rovente (plural roventi)

  1. red-hot
    Synonyms: arroventato, incandescente, infuocato, cocente, bollente, acceso
    • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IX”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 34–40; 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:
      E altro disse, ma non l’ho a mente;
      però che l’occhio m’avea tutto tratto
      ver’ l’alta torre a la cima rovente
      And more he said, but not in mind I have it; because mine eye had altogether drawn me towards the high tower with the red-flaming summit
  2. reddening, rubescent
    Synonyms: rosseggiante, (poetic) rubente, (literary) rubescente
  3. burning
    Synonym: infuocato
    un dolore rovente ― a burning pain
  4. (figurative, by extension) very hot; sweltering
    Synonym: torrido
    un'estate rovente ― a sweltering summer
  5. fiery, barbed, pointed
    parole roventi ― fiery words
  6. very tense or agitated
    un'atmosfera rovente ― an agitated atmosphere

Derived terms

Further reading
  • rovente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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