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Italian
Etymology
From spoltrire (“to rid of sloth”) + -si (“oneself”, enclitic reflexive pronoun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spolˈtrir.si/
- Rhymes: -irsi
- Hyphenation: spol‧trìr‧si
Verb
spoltrìrsi (first-person singular present mi spoltrìsco, first-person singular past historic mi spoltrìi, past participle spoltrìto) (literary)
- reflexive of spoltrire
- to shake off sloth/laziness/inertia, to be roused to action
1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXIV, lines 46–48:«Omai convien che tu così ti spoltre», ¶ disse 'l maestro; «ché, seggendo in piuma, ¶ in fama non si vien, né sotto coltre; […] »- "Now it behoves thee thus to put off sloth," ¶ My Master said; "for sitting upon down, ¶ Or under quilt, one cometh not to fame"
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Further reading
- spoltrirsi in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication