sbadigliare

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Italian

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Etymology

Borrowed from some Western Romance language (e.g. Old Occitan esbadalhar), from Vulgar Latin *exbataculāre, from Early Medieval Latin bataculāre (to yawn).

The foreign origin is indicated by the treatment of Latin -c'l- (the expected Tuscan outcome would have been *sbadacchiare or similar). The native Tuscan term for this is alare.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zba.diʎˈʎa.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: sba‧di‧glià‧re
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Verb

sbadigliàre (first-person singular present sbadìglio, first-person singular past historic sbadigliài, past participle sbadigliàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to yawn
  2. (transitive, literary) to do (something) lazily or indolently
  3. (transitive, literary) to spread (something) lazily or slowly
    • 1850, Giosuè Carducci, “Alla stazione una mattina d'autunno [At the Station, One Autumn Morning]”, in Odi barbare, volume 2, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 877:
      Oh quei fanali come s’inseguono
      accidïosi là dietro gli alberi,
      tra i rami stillanti di pioggia
      sbadigliando la luce su ’l fango!
      Oh, how those lights lazily chase each over there, behind the trees, among the raindrop-covered branches, spreading the light on the mud!

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References

  1. ^ Maiden, Martin. 2013. A Linguistic History of Italian. §7.2 “Word-internal voicing”
  2. ^ Ledgeway, Adam. 2016. “Italian, Tuscan and Corsican”, page 212. In The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages, edited by Adam Ledgeway and Martin Maiden.

Further reading

  • sbadigliare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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