adduarsi

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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)

  1. (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

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