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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.bi.taˈtor/
- Rhymes: -or
- Hyphenation: a‧bi‧ta‧tór
Noun
abitator m (apocopated)
- Apocopic form of abitatore: inhabitant, dweller
1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIV”, in Purgatorio, lines 40–42; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, 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”, 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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