stormo

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See also: ŝtormo

Italian

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Uno stormo di alcidi – A flock of auklets

Etymology

Borrowed from Lombardic *sturm (“storm”). Compare German Sturm (“storm”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstor.mo/
  • Rhymes: -ormo
  • Hyphenation: stór‧mo

Noun

stormo m (plural stormi)

  1. (archaic) raid, storming
    Synonym: assalto
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 1–3; 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:
      Io vidi già cavalier muover campo,
      e cominciare stormo e far lor mostra,
      e talvolta partir per loro scampo
      I have erewhile seen horsemen moving camp, begin the storming, and their muster make, and sometimes starting off for their escape;
  2. (archaic or literary) rank (line of soldiers)
    Synonym: schiera
    1. (by extension) a multitude (of people or animals)
      Synonym: moltitudine
  3. (dated) a small group of cavalrymen
    • 1873, Egidio Osio, transl., Deduzioni tattiche dalla guerra 1870-71, translation of original by Albrecht von Boguslawski, page 290:
      Appena gli stormi hanno subito la prima scarica di fuoco efficace, l'ufficiale che comanda i due squadroni chiusi e che col suo trombettiere ha accompagnato gli stormi sino a poca distanza dalla fanteria nemica, fa suonare il galoppo
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  4. flock (of birds or flying insects)
    Synonym: (for insects) sciame
    • 1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 25”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 12; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:
      Come stormo d’augei ch’in ripa a un stagno
      vola sicuro […]
      As a flock of birds, which safely flies on a pond's bank
  5. (military, aviation) a wing (an organizational level)
    • 1939, Rivista aeronautica, page 114:
      Si presenta anche la questione se sia più pratico assegnare alle divisioni, brigate e stormi
      The issue also presents itself of whether it's more practical to assign to the divisions, brigades, and wings
    • 2009, Claudio Maugeri, “Capitolo I - Le operazioni belliche durante la II Guerra Mondiale [Chapter 1 - War operations during World War II]”, in Il 41° stormo - Passato, presente e futuro della componente antisom dell'Aeronautica Militare, Da Punta Stilo al trasferimento in Cirenaica, page 9:
      Il diario storico di guerra dello stormo ha inizio ufficialmente il 3 Giugno 1940
      The wing’s historical war journal officially begins on June 3rd 1940

Coordinate terms

  • (wing): gruppo (a component unit of a stormo)

See also

Further reading

  • stormo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • stormo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

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