gravezza
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From grave (“heavy”) + -ezza.
Noun[edit]
gravezza f (plural gravezze)
- (literary) heaviness, weight, weightiness
- Synonym: pesantezza
- (literary, figurative) discomfort, anguish, distress
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 52–54; 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:
Further reading[edit]
- gravézza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana