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Italian
Noun
huomo m (plural huomini)
- Obsolete spelling of uomo (“man”).
1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], Johannes Numeister, published 1472, Canto XXX, lines 25–27:Io uidi un fatto a guiſa di leuto ¶ pur chelli aueſſe auuto languinaia ¶ tronca da laltro che lhuomo ha forcuto- I saw one made in fashion of a lute, ¶ if he had only had the groin cut off ¶ just at the point at which a man is forked.
1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decamerone [Decameron], Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page 213:Lo ſcolare più che altro huomo lieto al tempo impoſtogli andò alla caſa della donna- At this the scholar was the gladdest man alive and betook himself at the appointed time to his mistress's house
1532, Niccolò Machiavelli, Il principe [The Prince], published 1537, page 115:Occorſe che fu morto Pier'Agniolo Micheli in Lucca huomo qualificato, & di grānde ſtimatiōe- The death occurred in Lucca of Pier Agnolo Micheli, skilled and regardable man
1607, Giovanni Diodati, La Bibbia [The Bible], published 1607, S. Matteo 1.19:Hor Iosef, marito di essa, essendo huoma giusto ...- Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man ...