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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.rokˈke/*, /pe.rɔkˈke/*
- Rhymes: -e
- Hyphenation: pe‧roc‧ché
Conjunction
perocché
- (literary) since, because
- Synonym: perché
14th century, Domenico Cavalca, Vite de’ SS. Padri - Tomo secondo, Milan: Giovanni Silvestri, published 1830, page 90:Messere, non ci se’ più necessario e che più abbi sollecitudine di noi, perocchè, come dice questo frate, noi medesimi ci possiamo e vogliamo vendicare- Lord, we don't need you, or your care for us, anymore, because—as this man says—we ourselves can and want to take revenge.
1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro tredecimo [Thirteenth Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle], published 1991, section 32:Ancora nel detto tempo e mese furono per lo detto popolo fatti uficiali a rimettere tra ribelli certi Ghibellini caporali, e altri possenti stati rubelli prima; però che per la cacciata del duca tutti i libri di rubelli e sbanditi […] furono arsi- And, in that same year and month, by that same people, some officials were made to put some Ghibelline corporals among the rebels, along with some other potentates that had been rebels before, because, due to the duke's banishment, all the books of rebels and banishees were burned
1803, Ugo Foscolo, “Meritamente”, in Sonetti [Sonnets], collected in Opere scelte di Ugo Foscolo, vol. 2, Florence, published 1835, page 118:Meritamente, però ch’io potei
Abbandonarti, or grido alle frementi
Onde che batton l’alpi, e i pianti miei
Sperdano sordi del Tirreno i venti.- Deservingly, because I left you, I now scream at the trembling waves crashing against the mountains, and may the unfeeling Tyrrhenian winds scatter my cries
- (obsolete) although, even though, despite
- Synonyms: benché, malgrado, nonostante, per quanto, sebbene, seppure
1374, Francesco Petrarca, “O invidia, nemica di virtute [O Envy, enemy of Virtue]”, in Il Canzoniere, Florence: Andrea Bettini, published 1858, page 138, lines 9–11:Nè però che con atti acerbi e rei
Del mio ben pianga e del mio pianger rida,
Poria cangiar sol un de’ pensier miei.- Yet, even though, with harsh, evil acts, it cries at my well-being, and laughs at my crying, it couldn't change a single one of my thoughts.
Further reading
- perocché in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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