soperchio
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Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
soperchio (feminine soperchia, masculine plural soperchi, feminine plural soperchie)
Noun[edit]
soperchio m (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of soverchio
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 43–48; 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:
- Questi fuor cherci, che non han coperchio
piloso al capo, e papi e cardinali,
in cui usa avarizia il suo soperchio- Clerks those were who no hairy covering
have on the head, and Popes and Cardinals,
in whom avarices practises its excess.
- Clerks those were who no hairy covering
Adverb[edit]
soperchio