biltà

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bilˈta/*
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: bil‧tà

Noun

biltà f (invariable)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of beltà (beauty)
    • c. 1307, Dante Alighieri, “Trattato terzo, Capitolo XV [Third treatise, Chapter 15]”, in Convivio [The Banquet]‎, Florence: Le Monnier, published 1964, section 12:
      E però dico che sua biltà, cioè moralitade, piove fiammelle di foco, cioè appetito diritto, che s’ingenera nel piacere de la morale dottrina
      Therefore I say that her beauty (that is, morality) rains down flames of fire (that is, right appetite), which is engendered by the pleasure imparted by moral teaching

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