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)

  1. awake
    Synonym: (literary) desto
    Antonym: addormentato
  2. (figurative, by extension) alert; ready
  3. (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

Verb

sveglio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of svegliare

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzvɛʎ.ʎo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛʎʎo
  • Hyphenation: svè‧glio

Verb

sveglio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of svegliere

References

  1. 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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