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Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compare Venetian atrovar, Sicilian attruvari.
Verb
attrovàre (first-person singular present attròvo, first-person singular past historic attrovài, past participle attrovàto, auxiliary avére)
- (chiefly northern Italy, archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of trovare
1314, Francesco da Barberino, Documenti d'Amore, volume 3, part 7, document 9.577, page 177:[…] E poi sul far del giorno / pensa di tal ritorno / che non t'atrovi in essi, / se poi più non potessi.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
15th century, Leon Battista Alberti, “Proemio del libro terzo”, in I libri della famiglia:[…] in questo terzo libro atroverrai descritto un padre di famiglia, el quale credo ti sarà non fastidioso leggere […].- In this third book you'll find described a paterfamilias, who I believe won't be annoying to read for you.
References
- Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “attrovare”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 1, page 836
- “attrovare1”, in TLIO – Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini