maggio
See also: Maggio
Italian
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editEtymology 1
editNoun
editmaggio m (uncountable)
- May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)
- 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIV”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory][1], lines 145–147; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- E quale, annunziatrice de li albori,
l’aura di maggio movesi e olezza,
tutta impregnata da l’erba e da’ fiori; […]- And like the air of May—herald of the beginning—moves, sweet-smelling, all imbued by the grass and the flowers, […]
- bloom; prime (of life)
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editDescendants
edit- → Cimbrian: madjo
See also
edit- (Gregorian calendar months) mese del calendario gregoriano; gennaio, febbraio, marzo, aprile, maggio, giugno, luglio, agosto, settembre, ottobre, novembre, dicembre (Category: it:Months)
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editEtymology 2
editFrom Latin maior, maius, comparative of magnus (“big”, “great”).
Adjective
editmaggio (usually invariable, plural (rare) maggi)
- (archaic) greater, bigger
- 13th century, Cecco Angiolieri, Quanto un granel di panico è minore[3]; republished in Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Sonetti burleschi e realistici dei primi due secoli[4], volume 1, Bari: Laterza, 1920:
- […] quanto m’è piú pessimo el dolore
ad averlo, e l’ho, ch’a averlo perduto:
cotant’è maggio la pena d’amore
ched io non averei mai creduto.- […] as much as to me the grief is worse to have—and I have it—rather than to have lost it; so the pain of love is greater than I could ever have believed.
- 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Paradiso [Heaven][5], lines 118–120; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][6], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Ma nel commensurar d’i nostri gaggi
col merto è parte di nostra letizia,
perché non li vedem minor né maggi.- But part of our joy is in the commensuration of our rewards with our merit, because we see them as neither lesser nor greater.
- c. 1340, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Libro undecimo [Eleventh book]”, in Teseida[7], stanza 27; republished as Ignazio Moutier, editor, La Teseide di Giovanni Boccaccio, nuovamente corretta su i testi a penna, Florence: Stamperia Magheri, 1831, page 381:
- El fu di sotto di strame selvaggio
Agrestemente fatto, e di tronconi
D’alberi grossi, e fu il suo spazio maggio;- It was, in the lower part, roughly made of wild hay, and of large tree trunks, and its area was greater
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