scimia

Italian

Etymology

From Latin sīmia, from Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, snub-nosed). Compare Sicilian scìmia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */ˈʃi.mja/
  • Rhymes: -imja
  • Hyphenation: scì‧mia

Noun

scimia f (plural scimie)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of scimmia
    • mid 1300smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIX”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 136–139; 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:
      «[...] vedrai ch'io son l'ombra di Capocchio,
      che falsai li metalli con l'alchimia;
      e te dee ricordar, se ben t'adocchio,
      com'io fui di natura buona scimia
      "You'll see I am the shadow of Capocchio, who falsified metals by alchemy; you must remember, if I discern you well, how I was a skillful aper of nature."
    • 14th century, Fazio degli Uberti, “Capitolo ⅩⅩⅩ [Chapter 30]”, in Dittamondo, Venice: Giuseppe Antonelli, published 1835, page 357:
      [] e la scimia, s'io non fallo,
      Veduto avresti onorar per Minerva,
      Se fossi stato allora in questo stallo
      And, if I'm not mistaken, you would've seen the monkey adored for Minerva, had you been in this place at the time
    • 1581, Annibale Caro, Lettere familiari, volume primo [Family Letters - volume 1], Venice: Bernardo Giunti e fratelli, page 71:
      Così fà medesimamente l'arte: la quale in ogni cosa è scimia de la natura.
      So similarly does Art, which in all things is an aper of Nature.

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