compungere

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Italian

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Etymology

From Latin compungere. By surface analysis, con- +‎ pungere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /komˈpun.d͡ʒe.re/
  • Rhymes: -undʒere
  • Hyphenation: com‧pùn‧ge‧re

Verb

compùngere (first-person singular present compùngo, first-person singular past historic compùnsi, past participle compùnto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (literary, transitive) to disturb, to trouble, to afflict
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 13–15; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Ma poi ch’i’ fui al piè d’un colle giunto, ¶ là dove terminava quella valle ¶ che m’avea di paura il cor compunto, []
      But after I had reached a mountain's foot, ¶ ⁠At that point where the valley terminated, ⁠Which had with consternation pierced my heart,
  2. to cause to feel remorse, to cause to regret

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Further reading

  • compùngere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Verb

compungēre

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative of compungō

Verb

compungere

  1. inflection of compungō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative