soglio
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔʎ.ʎo/
- Rhymes: -ɔʎʎo
- Hyphenation: sò‧glio
Etymology 1
From Latin solium (“seat, throne”), from Proto-Indo-European *sodyom, derived from *sed- (“to sit”).
Alternative forms
Noun
soglio m (plural sogli) (literary)
Etymology 2
Variant of soglia.
Noun
soglio m (plural sogli)
- (obsolete) threshold
- early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 1–4; 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:
- Poi fummo dentro al soglio de la porta
che ’l mal amor de l’anime disusa,
perché fa parer dritta la via torta,
sonando la senti’ esser richiusa- When we had crossed the threshold of the door which the perverted love of souls disuses, because it makes the crooked way seem straight, re-echoing I heard it closed again
Etymology 3
From Medieval Latin solium, from a development of Latin solium (“tub, bathtub”).
Noun
soglio m (plural sogli)
- (historical) a unit of fluid measure used in Mantua and Modena, where it was equivalent to approximately 109.36 litres and 50.9 litres, respectively
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Further reading
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