stillamento

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Italian

Etymology

From stilla(re) (to drip) +‎ -mento (-ment, action noun suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stil.laˈmen.to/
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Hyphenation: stil‧la‧mén‧to

Noun

stillamento m (plural stillamenti) (uncommon)

  1. extract, extraction
    • 1536, Pietro Aretino, “Atto quarto”, in La cortigiana, page 105:
      Va ritorna à i tuoi stillamenti
      Go, go back to your extracts
    • 1760, Giuseppe Navarra, “Meditazione ⅩⅧ.”, in Meditazioni,, Padua: Giovanni Manfrè, section 3, page 88:
      Qui tante fragranze odorose, e tutte diverse per confortar l'odorato, ne' fiori medesimi, ne' balsami, ne' licori, negli amabili stillamenti di alcune piante.
      Here many odorous fragrances, all different in pleasing the smell, in the flowers themselves, in the balms, in the tinctures, in the pleasant extracts of certain plants.
  2. dripping (act of falling in drops)
    • 1500, Girolamo Savonarola, Prediche dalla pasqua al avvento dell'anno 1496, pages 175–176:
      [] et saranno anchora questi Predicatori come uno stillamento sopra lherba che non aspecta lhomo
      and these preachers will be like a dripping on the grass that does not wait for Man
    • 1651, Scipione Paolucci, “Capo duodecimo”, in Missioni de padri della Compagnia di Giesu nel Regno di Napol, Naples: Secondino Roncagliolo, page 215:
      Hò visto io la fede d'un medico, che attesta di due suoi infermi, che dal letto, ove giaceano, l'uno per doloroso stillamento d'orina []
      I saw the faith of a doctor, who tells about two patients of his, who, from the bed they were lying on, one due to painful dripping of urine
    • 1773, “Antonio”, in Girolamo Pompei, transl., Le vite di Plutarco - Tomo quarto, Verona: Stamperia Moroni, translation of Βίοι Παράλληλοι (Bíoi Parállēloi) by Plutarch, page 225:
      [] sembra che sieno un sotterraneo reflusso ed uno stillamento del mar rosso []
      They are apparently a reflux and a dripping of the Red Sea

Further reading

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