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Italian
Etymology
From adduare (“to pair up”) + -si (enclitic reflexive pronoun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ad.duˈar.si/
- Rhymes: -arsi
- Hyphenation: ad‧du‧àr‧si
Verb
adduàrsi (first-person singular present mi addùo, first-person singular past historic mi adduài, past participle adduàto) (archaic)
- (intransitive) to double oneself; to form a pair, to be joined
1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 4–6; 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:Così, volgendosi a la nota sua,
fu viso a me cantare essa sustanza,
sopra la qual doppio lume s’addua- Like that, returning to his melody,
this substance, upon which a double light
doubles itself, was seen by me to sing
Conjugation