omai

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oˈmaj/
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Hyphenation: o‧mài

Adverb

omai

  1. (archaic, poetic) Contraction of oggimai.
    Synonyms: oramai, ormai
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 97–99; 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:
      Or discendiamo omai a maggior pieta;
      già ogne stella cade che saliva
      quand'io mi mossi, e 'l troppo star si vieta
      Let us now descend to a greater torment. Every star that was rising as I set out is now falling, and one cannot stay too long

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Latvian

Noun

omai f

  1. dative singular of oma
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