testeso

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Italian

Etymology

Perhaps from a contraction of teso teso.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teˈste.zo/
  • Rhymes: -ezo
  • Hyphenation: te‧sté‧so

Adverb

testeso

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of testé
    1. just now, just
      • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio, Bompiani, published 2001, Canto V, p. 69 vv. 49-51:
        [...] e «Se tanto labore in bene assommi», ¶ disse, «perché la tua faccia testeso ¶ un lampeggiar di riso dimostrommi?»
        and, «As thou well mayst consummate a labour ¶ so great,» it said, «why did thy face just now ¶ display to me the lightning of a smile?»
    2. now, right now; forthwith
      • 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decamerone, Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page 218:
        Egli dee venir qui teſteſo uno, che ha pegno il mio farſetto [...]
        there will be one here forthwith who hath my doublet in pawn
    3. shortly, soon, in a short while

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