incogliere

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Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

in- +‎ cogliere

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inˈkɔʎ.ʎe.re/
  • Rhymes: -ɔʎʎere
  • Hyphenation: in‧cò‧glie‧re

Verb

incògliere (first-person singular present incòlgo, first-person singular past historic incòlsi, past participle incòlto, auxiliary avére) (literary)

  1. (transitive, uncommon) to surprise, to catch red-handed
    • 13th century [27–9 BCE], “Libro VIII [Book 8]”, in anonymous translator, Prima deca di Tito Livio [First decade of Titus Livius], partial translation of Ab Urbe conditā librī CXLII by Titus Līvius (in Classical Latin), section XVIII; republished as Claudio Dalmazzo, editor, La prima deca di Tito Livio, volgarizzamento del buon secolo corretto, volume 2, Turin: Stamperia reale, 1846, page 250:
      Ed ella scoperse che per la malvagità delle femine la città era male balita; e che le femine cocevano il veleno; e che tantosto le potrebbono incogliere, se seguire la volessero.
      And she found out that, due to the ill intent of the women, the city was badly ruled; and that the women were cooking poison; and that they could immediately catch them red-handed, if they wanted to follow her.
    • 13491353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata nona – Novella seconda”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:
      [] e cosí taciutesi, tra sé le vigilie e le guardie segretamente partirono per incoglier costei.
      and so, the sentries and the guards silently left in order to catch her red-handed.
    • 1919, Gabriele D'Annunzio, “Agli italiani degli Stati Uniti”, in L'urna inesausta:
      L’armistizio male imposto c’incolse a un tratto come una pestilenza senza scampo.
      The badly-imposed armistice suddenly surprised us like an inescapable plague.
  2. (transitive, very rare) to contract (a disease)
    • 1856, Antonio Bresciani, “La coscrizione” (chapter 2), in Lorenzo, o il coscritto; republished in Opere del p. Antonio Bresciani della Compagnia di Gesù, volume 12, Rome, Turin, 1867, page 31:
      [] altri maneggiavan tignosi per incoglier la tigna, gli scabbiosi per incoglier la scabbia []
      others handled wormridden people in order to contract ringworm, scabby people in order to contract scabies
  3. (intransitive, uncommon) to befall, to happen to (especially of unhappy or harmful events)
    Synonym: accadere
    incogliere male (a qualcuno) something bad to befall (someone)
    incogliere bene (a qualcuno) something good to happen to (someone)
    incoglierne male (a qualcuno) something bad to befall (someone)

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References

  • incogliere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “incogliere”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 7, page 701

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