ghiaccia – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of ghiaccia

Noun: ghiaccia
Gender: f Hyphenation: ghiàc‧cia
Singular fghiaccia
Plural fghiacce

Sample Sentences

  • Lo ’mperador del doloroso regno
  • da mezzo ’l petto uscia fuor de la ghiaccia;
  • e più con un gigante io mi convegno,
  • che i giganti non fan con le sue braccia (The Emperor of the dolorous kingdom was coming out of the ice starting from his mid-breast; and I compare myself to a giant more than a giant does with his arms) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 28–31; 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:]

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *glacium/a, from Latin glaciēs. Doublet of ghiaccio and glassa. See: Latin Nouns 'glaciēs'.

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