allotta

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈlɔt.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɔtta
  • Hyphenation: al‧lòt‧ta

Etymology 1

Univerbation of all' +‎ otta, literally “at the hour, at the time”.

Adverb

allotta (obsolete)

  1. at the time, then (referring to the past)
    • c. 1260 [c. 85 BCE], “Tullio dice che davanti dicerà essempli in ciascuna maniera di constituzioni” (chapter 12), in Brunetto Latini, transl., La rettorica, translation of Dē inventiōne by Marcus Tullius Cicerō (in Classical Latin), lines 24–26; republished as Francesco Maggini, editor, La rettorica di Brunetto Latini‎, Florence: Galletti e Cocci, 1915, page 83:
      […] perciò ch’allotta sarà più chiara la ragione d’argomentare, quando l’exemplo si potrà a mano a mano aconciare al genere della causa.
      [ […] perciò ch'allotta sarà più chiara la ragione d'argomentare, quando l’essemplo si potrà a mano a mano aconciare al genere della causa.]
      because the reason of the argument will be clearer then, when the example can be adapted to the kind of cause as we proceed.
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIV”, in Inferno‎, lines 4–7; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Come quando una grossa nebbia spira,
      o quando l’emisperio nostro annotta,
      par di lungi un molin che ’l vento gira,
      veder mi parve un tal dificio allotta
      As when a thick fog wafts, or when our hemisphere is shrouded by night, a windmill—moving the wind—appears in the distance, I then thought I saw a similar building

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

allotta

  1. inflection of allottare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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