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Italian
Etymology
With a change in conjugation, from Latin excerpere (“to choose, select”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): */ʃerˈpa.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: scer‧pà‧re
Verb
scerpàre (first-person singular present scèrpo, first-person singular past historic scerpài, past participle scerpàto, auxiliary avére)
- (archaic or literary) to rend, to tear off
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 34–36; 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:Da che fatto fu poi di sangue bruno,
ricominciò a dir: “Perché mi scerpi?
non hai tu spirto di pietade alcuno? […]”- After it had become embrowned with blood,
it recommenced its cry: “Why dost thou rend me?
Hast thou no spirit of pity whatsoever? ”
Conjugation
Further reading
- scerpare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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