scorno
See also: scornò
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskɔr.no/
- Rhymes: -ɔrno
- Hyphenation: scòr‧no
Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin *excornum. By surface analysis, deverbal from scornarsi (“to make a fool of oneself”) + -o. Compare Neapolitan scuorno.
Noun
scorno m (plural scorni)
- humiliation, shame
- early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 31–33; 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:
- […] esser di marmo candido e addorno / d’intagli sì, che non pur Policleto, / ma la natura lì avrebbe scorno.
- […] to be of white marble and so adorned with sculptures, that not only Polycletus, but nature itself had there been put to shame.
Further reading
- scòrno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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