giammai

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Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Equivalent to già +‎ mai. Compare French jamais, Spanish jamás and Portuguese jamais.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒamˈmaj/
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Hyphenation: giam‧mài

Adverb

giammai (literary)

  1. never
    Synonym: mai
    Antonym: sempre
    • 2020 September, Antonio Pennacchi, “Capitolo terzo [Third Chapter]”, in La strada del mare (overall work in Italian, Venetian, English, and French), Milan: Mondadori Libri S.p.A., →ISBN, page 478:
      E sono andati avanti per più di due anni […] a coltivare probabilmente ognuno le proprie resistenze: «Ah, io con quello non ci voglio avere a che fare». «Io di quell’altro non mi fiderò giammai».
      And they went on for more than two years, each of them probably fostering their own reluctances. "I don't want anything to do with that one". "I'll never trust that other one".
  2. (obsolete) sometimes, at times
    Synonym: qualche volta
    • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Verdi panni, sanguigni, oscuri o persi”, in Il Canzoniere‎, Florence: Andrea Bettini, published 1858, page 59:
      Di quanto per amor giammai soffersi
      Ed aggio a soffrir anco
      Fin che mi sani 'l cor colei che 'l morse,
      Rubella di mercè, che pur l'envoglia,
      Vendetta fia […]
      What I have sometimes suffered because of love, and what I yet have to suffer until my heart is healed by she, enemy of mercy, who bit it and yet entices it, will be avenged

References

  1. ^ giammai in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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