schiatta – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of schiatta

Noun: schiatta
Gender: f Hyphenation: schiàt‧ta
Singular fschiatta
Plural fschiatte

Sample Sentences

  • Ancora erono uenuti ad abitare a Fiorenza la ſchiatta de Figiouanni. e queſti furono antichiſsimi, e gentiliſsimi huomini richi in Fiorenza, & in contado (The Figiovanni family also came to live in Florence. They were a rich, very old and noble family, in Florence and in its territory) [mid 13ᵗʰ century–1280s, Ricordano Malispini, “Come la schiatta de' Figiovanni vennono a Fiorenza, e di loro affare [How the Figiovanni family came to Florence, and their business]” (chapter 34), in Istoria antica, page 23; republished as Istoria antica di Ricordano Malespini gentil'uomo fiorentino dall’edificazione di Fiorenza insino all'anno MCCLXXXI, con l'aggiunta di Giachetto suo nipote dal detto anno per insino al 1286, Florence: Stamperia Giunti, 1568:]
  • E un […]
  • […]
  • gridò: "Ricordera’ ti anche del Mosca,
  • che disse, lasso!, ’Capo ha cosa fatta’,
  • che fu mal seme per la gente tosca".
  • E io li aggiunsi: "E morte di tua schiatta";
  • per ch’elli, accumulando duol con duolo,
  • sen gio come persona trista e matta. (And one […] cried: "You will also remember Mosca, who—alas!—said 'What's done is done', who was a nefarious seed for the Tuscan people." And I added: "And the death of your lineage." So he, piling sorrow up on sorrow, left like a crazy, grieving person.) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXVIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 103, 106–111; 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:]
  • Dov’è tua fama già tanto vulgata?
  • Dov’è il tuo pregio e ’l tuo nome felice,
  • Chè la tua schiatta hai sì vituperata? (Where is your widespread fame? Where are your value, and your felicitous name, [now] that you have so vilified your lineage?) [1478, Luigi Pulci, “Canto decimo [Tenth canto]”, in Morgante, stanza 124; republished as Pietro Sermolli, editor, Felice Le Monnier, 1855, page 207:]
  • nescīs heu, perdita, necdum
  • Lāomedōnteae sentīs periūria gentis? (Oh, unfortunate Dido, who still don't see where you arrived, and do not know of the deceptions of the wicked lineage of Laomedon!) [mid 1560s [29–19 BCE], “Libro quarto”, in Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide, translation of Aeneis by Publius Vergilius Maro (in Classical Latin), lines 836–839; republished as L’Eneide di Virgilio^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Eneide_(Caro)), Florence: G. Barbera, 1892:]
  • [scrophās] dēbēmus ēligere […] ex bonā prōgeniē, ut porcōs multōs pariat (One should pick them [sows] of good breeding, so that they have lots of piglets.) [1605 [1304–1309], “Delle troie, porci, e verri, come s'eleggano, e come si tengano, e della loro età, e della loro utilità, e pregnezza” (chapter 77), Libro nono [Ninth book], in Bastiano de' Rossi, transl., Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise on agriculture], Florence: published by Cosimo Giusti, translation of Rūrālium commodōrum librī XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi (in Medieval Latin), page 465:]
  • […] A voi divina schiatta
  • Vie più che a noi mortali il ciel concesse
  • Domabile midollo entro al cerebro
  • Sì che breve lavor basta a stamparvi
  • Novelle idee. […] (Divine progeny, the heavens gave to you—far more than to us mortals—a malleable marrow inside the brain, so that a brief effort is enough for you to imprint new ideas.) [1763 March, Giuseppe Parini, Il mattino; collected in Opere dell'abate Giuseppe Parini, Venice: Giacomo Storti, 1803, page 19:]

Etymology

1. From a Vulgar Latin *sclacta, *slacta, derived from a Germanic language, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slahtō, related to *slahaną (“to strike, hit”). Compare Judeo-Italian סְקֵילַאטַה (səqēlaʔṭâ /⁠schelatta⁠/).
2. Cognate with Danish slægt (“family; lineage”), Dutch geslacht (“sex; gender; lineage; generation”), German Geschlecht (“sex; gender; type; lineage”), Polish szlachta (“nobility”), Swedish släkt (“extended family, relatives”). See: Danish Nouns 'slægt', Dutch Nouns 'geslacht', German Nouns 'Geschlecht', Polish Nouns 'szlachta', Swedish Nouns 'släkt'.

Verbs referencing "schiatta"

German Nouns Geschlecht, Polish Nouns szlachta.

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