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)
- (archaic) Alternative form of scimmia
- mid 1300s–mid 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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