zefierno

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Neapolitan[edit]

Noun[edit]

zefierno m (plural zefierne)

  1. devil, demon, archdemon
    • 1635, Pentamerone IV.5,[1]
      […] chi è stato lo figlio de lo Zefierno, che v'ave puosto a sti saute" ("What child of the Devil has egged you on to these tricks," Penzer tr.)
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1786, La Gierosalemme libberata (Neaplitan tr. of w:Jerusalem Delivered), Canto IX.15,[2]
      Protone sbacantaje lo Nfierno, e ffore/ Sgrottaie co li Zefierne lo scorore (for "Grim Pluto emptied hell's abyss, and poured/From gloomy Tartarus his blackest night", Sir John Kingston James tr.)
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