polve

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Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pulvis (dust), via the nominative. Doublet of polvere, from the Latin accusative pulverem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpol.ve/
  • Rhymes: -olve
  • Hyphenation: pól‧ve

Noun

polve f (plural polvi) (poetic)

  1. dust
    • 1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Libro XVI, page 368, lines 1019–1021:
      E si bruttaro del cimier le creste ¶ di sangue e polve; nè di polve in pria ¶ insozzar quel cimiero era concesso
      And the helms' crests became soiled with blood and dust; nor, firstly, it was allowed to soil that helm with dust
    • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “I. All'Italia [To Italy]”, in Canti, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 7, lines 134–136:
      [] Io veggio, o parmi, ¶ un fluttuar di fanti e di cavalli, ¶ e fumo e polve, e luccicar di spade ¶ come tra nebbia lampi.
      I see, oh, around me, the swell of troops and horsemen, smoke, dust, the glitter of swords, like lightning in the mist.
    Synonym: polvere
  2. Figurative meanings:
    1. ashes (remains after cremation)
      • 1807, Ugo Foscolo, Dei Sepolcri, Molini, Landi e comp., published 1809, page 11:
        [] e fu temuto ¶ su la polve degli avi il giuramento
        and it was feared, the oath upon the ashes of the forefathers
      Synonym: ceneri
  3. the body
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto II, page 45, lines 133–135:
      E come l'alma dentro a vostra polve ¶ per differenti membra e conformate ¶ a diverse potenze si risolve []
      And even as the soul within your dust through members different and accommodated to faculties diverse expands itself

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