polve – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of polve

Noun: polve
Gender: f Hyphenation: pól‧ve
Singular fpolve
Plural fpolvi

Sample Sentences

  • E si bruttaro del cimier le creste ¶ di sangue e polve; nè di polve in pria ¶ insozzar quel cimiero era concesso (And the helms' crests became soiled with blood and dust; nor, firstly, it was allowed to soil that helm with dust) [1825, Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, Libro XVI, page 368, lines 1019–1021:]
  • […] Io veggio, o parmi, ¶ un fluttuar di fanti e di cavalli, ¶ e fumo e polve, e luccicar di spade ¶ come tra nebbia lampi. (I see, oh, around me, the swell of troops and horsemen, smoke, dust, the glitter of swords, like lightning in the mist.) [1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “I. All'Italia [To Italy]”, in Canti^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Indice:Canti_(Leopardi_-_Donati).djvu), Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 7, lines 134–136:]
  • […] e fu temuto ¶ su la polve degli avi il giuramento (and it was feared, the oath upon the ashes of the forefathers) [1807, Ugo Foscolo, Dei Sepolcri, Molini, Landi e comp., published 1809, page 11:]
  • E come l'alma dentro a vostra polve ¶ per differenti membra e conformate ¶ a diverse potenze si risolve […] (And even as the soul within your dust through members different and accommodated to faculties diverse expands itself […]) [1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto II, page 45, lines 133–135:]

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pulvis (“dust”), via the nominative. Doublet of polvere, from the Latin accusative pulverem. See: Latin Nouns 'pulvis', Latin Nouns 'pulvis'.

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