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Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin aegrum (“sick, ill”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
egro (feminine egra, masculine plural egri, feminine plural egre)
- (poetic) sick, ill
- Synonyms: ammalato, (literary, obsolete) egrotante, (literary) infermo, malato
- Antonym: sano
1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Sonetto CCLXXXIV. [Sonnet 284]”, in Il Canzoniere, Florence: Andrea Bettini, published 1858, page 233, lines 5–7:Qual à già i nervi e i polsi e i pensier’egri ¶ Cui domestica febbre assalir deve, ¶ Tal mi sentia- Like one who already has ill body and mind, soon to be attacked by common fever: thus I was feeling
1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered], Erasmo Viotti, Proemio, page 2:Così à l’egro fanciul porghiamo aſperſi ¶ Di ſoaue licor gli orli del vaſo- Thus to the ill boy we hand the rim of the cup, covered in sweet liquid
- (poetic, figurative) distressed, troubled
- Synonyms: addolorato, afflitto
- Antonym: sereno
1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Trionfo della Divinità [Triumph of Divinity]”, in I trionfi [Triumphs], collected in https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Indice:Le_rime_di_M._Francesco_Petrarca_I.djvu Le rime di M. Francesco Petrarca, Venice: Giuseppe Bortoli, published 1739, page 321, lines 52–54:O veramente sordi, ignudi e frali, ¶ poveri d’argomenti e di consiglio, ¶ egri del tutto e miseri mortali!- Oh, truly deaf, naked and frail, without arguments or advice, completely troubled and miserable mortals!
- (poetic, by extension) of or pertaining to illness or sickness
1803, Ugo Foscolo, “All'amica risanata [To the Healed Friend]”, in Odi [Odes], collected in Odi e sonetti di Ugo Foscolo, published 1890, page 30:Sorgon così tue dive ¶ Membra dall’egro talamo ¶ E in te beltà rivive- Thus your divine body rises from your bed of illness, and beauty lives again in you
Derived terms
Noun
egro m (plural egri, feminine egra)
- a sick or ill person
1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered], Erasmo Viotti, Canto 18, page 409:Giungi aſpettato à dar ſalute à l’egra: ¶ D'amoroſo penſiero arſa, e ferita- You come, expected, giving health to the sick one, burned and hurt by a thought of love
Further reading
- egro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- egro in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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