coverto

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈvɛr.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrto
  • Hyphenation: co‧vèr‧to

Adjective

coverto (feminine coverta, masculine plural coverti, feminine plural coverte)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of coperto
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 31–33; 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:
      Ed ecco, quasi al cominciar de l'erta, ¶ una lonza leggera e presta molto, ¶ che di pel macolato era coverta; []
      And lo! almost where the ascent began, a panther light and swift exceedingly, which with a spotted skin was covered o'er!

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