avaccio
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin vīvācius, comparative form of vīvāciter (“vigorously”), from vīvāx (“vigorous, lively”). Compare Catalan aviat.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
avaccio (obsolete)
- soon, early
- Synonym: presto
- quickly, eagerly
- Synonym: in fretta
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 115–117; 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:
- E già ’l maestro mio mi richiamava;
per ch’i’ pregai lo spirto più avaccio
che mi dicesse con chi lu’ istava.- And now my Master was recalling me; so I asked the spirit more eagerly to tell me who was with him there.
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Further reading[edit]
- avaccio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana