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Italian
Etymology
From gemicare (“to leak, to drip”) + -io (frequentative).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒe.miˈki.o/
- Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: ge‧mi‧chì‧o
Noun
gemichio m (plural gemichii)
- (literary) a slow, steady dripping
- Synonym: stillicidio
- Hypernym: gocciolio
1776, “Capitolo Ⅵ”, in Il mercurio sperimentato nella cura della lue venerea, Lausanne: Giovanni Vincenzo Falorni, page 33:Nella vulva delle donne produrrà ulcere, pustule, escrescenze, gemichio di mucosità marciose e sanguigne […]- In the vulva of women, it will produce ulcers, pustules, excrescences, dripping of purulent, bloody mucosities
1820, Annibale Omodei, “Istoria di due operazioni d'ernia incarcerata”, in Annali universali di medicina - Volume ⅩⅥ, Milan: Giuseppe Buocher, page 305:[…] un gemichio che veniva da minime arterie si arrestò coll'applicazione dell'apparecchio.- A dripping, coming from small arteries, stopped with the application of the device.
1867, Augusto Conti, “Scienza senz' il vero rimane zero”, in I discorsi del tempo in un viaggio d'Italia, Florence: M. Cellini e C., page 80:[…] mentre colava un gemichio d'acqua giù dalla volta in una pozzetta con suono lento, uguale, continuo, a goccia a goccia.- while a dripping of water came down from the roof into a puddle, with a slow, regular, continuous sound, drop by drop.
Further reading
- gemichio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana