Noun: strupo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: strù‧po
| Singular m | strupo |
| Plural m | strupi |
Sample Sentences
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Poi si rivolse a quella ’nfiata labbia,
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e disse: «Taci, maladetto lupo!
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consuma dentro te con la tua rabbia.
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Non è sanza cagion l'andare al cupo:
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vuolsi ne l’alto, là dove Michele
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fé la vendetta del superbo strupo». (He then turned to that bloated lip,
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and said. "Quiet, you cursed wolf!
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Consume yourself from within with your own rage.
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The journey to the darkness is not without a cause:
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thus is willed on high, where Michael
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took revenge for the proud violence.") [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 7–12; 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:]
Nouns inflected like strupo
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin stuprum (“dishonor, violation”), through metathesis. See: Latin Nouns '
stuprum'.
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