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Sicilian
Verb
attruvari (past participle attruvatu)
- Alternative form of truvari
a. 1368, De Cruyllis–Spatafora, “Di la maynera di li freni”, in Libru di la Mascalchia , translation of De Medicina equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 14r:E da ki li ài atruvatu lu frenu bonu e cunvinivili nun li lu mutari.- And since you found a good and suitable bit for it don't change it.
c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter IV, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 1:Chi si un regnu infelici ávi la guerra, / O la fami o la pesti cci attruvati […].- Because if an unfortunate rein is in war, you'll find there either famine or plague.
References
- “attrovare1”, in TLIO – Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “attruvari”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 444
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “attruvari”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 164
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “attruvàri”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 98