sovente

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Interlingua

Etymology

From Italian.

Adverb

sovente (comparative plus sovente, superlative le plus sovente)

  1. often

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sovent, from Latin subinde.[1] See French souvent.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soˈvɛn.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnte
  • Hyphenation: so‧vèn‧te

Adverb

sovente

  1. (literary) often
    Synonyms: frequentemente, spesso
    • 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 57:
      I miei maestri di Melk mi avevano detto sovente che è molto difficile per un nordico farsi idee chiare sulle vicende religiose e politiche d'Italia.
      My masters at Melk often told me how difficult it would be for a Nordic person to clearly understand Italian religious and political affairs.

Adjective

sovente (plural soventi)

  1. (archaic, rare) frequent
    Synonym: frequente
    Antonym: infrequente

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Migliorini, Bruno with Aldo Duro (1950) Prontuario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Paravia

Further reading

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

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