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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /at.terˈt͡sa.to/
- Rhymes: -ato
- Hyphenation: at‧ter‧zà‧to
Etymology 1
From Latin attertiātus, derived from tertius (“third”).
Noun
atterzato m (plural atterzati)
- a kind of white wine prepared with a must reduced by a third upon a fire
Further reading
- atterzato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
atterzato (feminine atterzata, masculine plural atterzati, feminine plural atterzate)
- past participle of atterzare
Adjective
atterzato (feminine atterzata, masculine plural atterzati, feminine plural atterzate)
- (archaic) reduced by a third
13th century, Dante Alighieri, A ciascun’alma presa e gentil core [To each taken soul and gentle heart], lines 5–8; collected in Michele Barbi, editor, Le Opere di Dante, Florence: Società Dantesca Italiana, published 1960, 1921:Già eran quasi che atterzate l’ore
del tempo che onne stella n’è lucente,
quando m’apparve Amor subitamente,
cui essenza membrar mi dà orrore.- Almost four hours of the night had already gone by, when suddenly Love appeared to me, remembering the essence of which makes me shudder.
- (literally, “The hours of the time that every star shines were already almost reduced by a third, when to me appeared Love suddenly, whose essence remembering gives me horror.”)
- (archaic) divided in three parts; tripartite
1563 [c. 335 BCE], Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotélēs, Aristotle), “Parte principale terza, Particella decima - Spositione [Third main part, Tenth subpart - Explanation]”, in Lodovico Castelvetro, transl., Poetica d'Aristotele [Aristotle's poetics], Basilea: Pietro de Sedabonis, translation of Περὶ ποιητικῆς (Perì poiētikês, About poetry) (in Ancient Greek), published 1576, page 250:Anchora pareva, che ciascuna riconoscenza di persona, o di fatto sconosciuto potesse, et dovesse ricevere una distintione atterzata, secondo che sono tre le ignoranze delle persone- It even seemed that every acknowledgment of an unknown person or fact could—and should—make a tripartite distinction, according to the three ignorances of people