sveglio
See also: svegliò
Italian
Etymology 1
From the short past participle of svegliare (“to wake up”) in Tuscan; compare the Standard Italian participle svegliato (“woken up”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzveʎ.ʎo/
- Rhymes: -eʎʎo
- Hyphenation: své‧glio
Adjective
sveglio (feminine sveglia, masculine plural svegli, feminine plural sveglie)
- awake
- Synonym: (literary) desto
- Antonym: addormentato
- (figurative, by extension) alert; ready
- (informal) cunning
- Synonyms: accorto, furbo, smaliziato
- Antonym: ingenuo
Further reading
- sveglio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzveʎ.ʎo/
- Rhymes: -eʎʎo
- Hyphenation: své‧glio
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzvɛʎ.ʎo/
- Rhymes: -ɛʎʎo
- Hyphenation: svè‧glio
References
- Ledgeway 2016: 221
Further reading
- Ledgeway, Adam. 2016. Italian, Tuscan, and Corsican. In Ledgeway, Adam & Maiden, Martin (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Romance languages, 206–227. Oxford: OUP.
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