palagio – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of palagio

Noun: palagio
Gender: m Hyphenation: pa‧là‧gio
Singular mpalagio
Plural mpalagi

Sample Sentences

  • Nel mezzo di questo lago à due isole: su ciascuna à uno molto bel palagio e ricco, sí ben fatto che bene pare palagio d’imperadore. E chi vòle fare nozze o convito, fàllo in questi palagi (There are two islands in the middle of this lake: on each one is a very beautiful and sumptuous palace, so beautifully built that it looks like an emperor's palace. And those who wish to hold a wedding, or a feast, do so in these palaces) [c. 1300 [c. 1298], Marco Polo, Rustichello da Pisa, “148 - Di Quinsai [148 - About Quinsai]”, in Il Milione [The Million], translation of Le divisement dou monde; republished Antonio Lanza, editor, L'Unità - Editori Riuniti, 1982:]
  • E in questo ragionando, hanno veduto
  • Un bel palagio in mezzo del deserto (While they talked about it, they saw a beautiful palace in the middle of the desert) [1478, Luigi Pulci, “Canto II”, in Morgante, Felice Le Monnier, published 1855, page 26:]
  • Il vulgo intanto […]
  • […]
  • Fia pago assai, poichè vedrà sovente
  • Ire e tornar dal tuo palagio i primi
  • D'arte maestri […] (Meanwhile the people will be very satisfied, once they see the first art masters frequently coming and going to your palace) [1763, Giuseppe Parini, “Il mattino [Morning]”, in Il giorno [The Day]; republished, Milano: Paolo Cavalletti, 1819, page 18:]
  • Subitamente, udito questo, ben dodici de’ sergenti corsero lá dove il misero Martellino era senza pettine carminato, ed alle maggiori fatiche del mondo rotta la calca, loro tutto pesto e tutto rotto il trassero delle mani e menaronnelo a palagio (Having heard this, twelve sergeants ran where poor Martellino was carded without a comb, and, having cut through the mob, they took him—all beaten and broken—from their hands, and escorted him to the palace) [1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata seconda – Novella prima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:]

Etymology

From Latin palātium (“palace, large residence”), from Palātium (“Palatine”), one of the seven hills of Rome. Doublet of palazzo. See: Latin Nouns 'palātium'.

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