Noun: altezza
Gender: f
Hyphenation: al‧téz‧za
| Singular f | altezza |
| Plural f | altezze |
Sample Sentences
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[…] questa mi porse tanto di gravezza ¶ con la paura ch’uscia di sua vista, ¶ ch’io perdei la speranza de l’altezza. (She brought upon me so much heaviness, with the affright that from her aspect came, that I the hope relinquished of the height.) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 52–54; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
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sua altezza reale (his/her royal highness)
Nouns inflected like altezza
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin altitia, from Latin altus (“high”). Compare Portuguese and Spanish alteza, Catalan altesa. By surface analysis, alto (“high”) + -ezza. See: Latin Nouns '
altus', Catalan Nouns '
altesa'.
Verbs referencing "altezza"
English Nouns
Highness, Spanish Nouns
alteza, French Nouns
altesse, Romanian Nouns
alteță.
Translations