abitator

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.bi.taˈtor/
  • Rhymes: -or
  • Hyphenation: a‧bi‧ta‧tór

Noun

abitator m (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of abitatore: inhabitant, dweller
    • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIV”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎, lines 40–42; 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:
      […] hanno sì mutata lor natura
      li abitator de la misera valle,
      che par che Circe li avesse in pastura.
      Have so transformed their nature
      the dwellers in that miserable valley,
      it seems that Circe had them in her pasture.
    • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “La vita solitaria [The Solitary Life]”, in Canti‎, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 57:
      La mattutina pioggia, allor che, l’ale
      battendo, esulta nella chiusa stanza
      la gallinella, ed al balcon s’affaccia
      l’abitator de’ campi […]
      The morning rain, when the hen, beating her wings, exults in her closed run, and the countryside dweller goes by the balcony

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