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Italian
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Adverb
indarno (literary)
- in vain
- fruitlessly
- unnecessarily
- needlessly
Adjective
indarno (feminine indarna, masculine plural indarni, feminine plural indarne) (literary)
- vain, useless
- Synonyms: vano, inutile
1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “CXXVIII — Italia mia, benché ’l parlar sia indarno”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 1–3; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:Italia mia, benché ’l parlar sia indarno / a le piaghe mortali / che nel bel corpo tuo sì spesse veggio […]- My dear Italy, although speaking is useless to the mortal wounds that in your beautiful body I see so many
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