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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soˈpɛr.kjo/
- Rhymes: -ɛrkjo
- Hyphenation: so‧pèr‧chio
Adjective
soperchio (feminine soperchia, masculine plural soperchi, feminine plural soperchie)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of soverchio
Noun
soperchio m (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of soverchio
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 43–48; 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:Questi fuor cherci, che non han coperchio
piloso al capo, e papi e cardinali,
in cui usa avarizia il suo soperchio- Clerks those were who no hairy covering
have on the head, and Popes and Cardinals,
in whom avarices practises its excess.
Adverb
soperchio
- (obsolete) Alternative form of soverchio