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English
Noun
pieta (plural pietas)
- Alternative form of pietà
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
First used by Dante, with an accent that corresponds to the one of the nominative of the Latin etymon pietās.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpjɛ.ta/
- Rhymes: -ɛta
- Hyphenation: piè‧ta
Noun
pieta f (invariable)
- (rare, poetic, Dantesque) Alternative form of pietà
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 19–21; 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:Allor fu la paura un poco queta, / che nel lago del cor m’era durata / la notte ch’i’ passai con tanta pieta.- Then the fear, which — in the depths of my heart — had lasted throughout the night I spent in such anguish, quieted down a little
Further reading
- pièta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana