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Italian
Etymology
From Latin spissus. Compare Spanish espeso, Portuguese espesso, French épais.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspes.so/
- Rhymes: -esso
- Hyphenation: spés‧so
Adjective
spesso (feminine spessa, masculine plural spessi, feminine plural spesse, superlative spessissimo)
- thick
- Synonym: erto
- Antonym: sottile
- dense
- Synonyms: denso, fitto
- Antonym: rado
- (now literary, in the plural) many
- Synonyms: molto, numeroso
- spesse volte ― many times; often
1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “CXXVIII — Italia mia, benché ’l parlar sia indarno”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 1–3; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:Italia mia, benché ’l parlar sia indarno / a le piaghe mortali / che nel bel corpo tuo sì spesse veggio […]- My dear Italy, although speaking is useless to the mortal wounds that in your beautiful body I see so many
Related terms
Adverb
spesso
- often
- Spesso sto a casa. ― I'm often at home.
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