a poco a poco
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Asturian[edit]
Adverb[edit]
- (idiomatic) little by little (a small amount at a time)
Italian[edit]
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Adverb[edit]
- little by little, by degrees
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 58–60; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994: