lonza

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See also: Lonza and lonża

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlon.t͡sa/
  • Rhymes: -ontsa
  • Hyphenation: lón‧za

Etymology 1

Dante encountering the lonza in his Inferno

Probably from Vulgar Latin *luncea, from Latin lynx, whence also Italian lince (a borrowed doublet). Cognate to French once.

Noun

lonza f (plural lonze)

  1. a term used in the Middle Ages to describe a type of wild cat, possibly a lynx or leopard (cf. Portuguese onça)
    • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 31–33; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Ed ecco, quasi al cominciar de l'erta, ¶ una lonza leggera e presta molto, ¶ che di pel macolato era coverta; […]
      And lo! almost where the ascent began, a panther light and swift exceedingly, which with a spotted skin was covered o'er!

Further reading

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French longe.

Noun

lonza f (plural lonze)

  1. loin of pork

Further reading

  • lónza2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • lonza on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it

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