abitator

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.bi.taˈtor/
  • Stress: abitatór
  • Hyphenation: a‧bi‧ta‧tor

Noun

abitator m (invariable)

  1. Apocopic form of abitatore: inhabitant, dweller
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XIV, lines 37–42, page 205:
      vertù così per nimica si fuga ¶ da tutti come biscia, o per sventura ¶ del luogo, o per mal uso che li fruga: ¶ ond’ hanno sì mutata lor natura ¶ li abitator de la misera valle, ¶ che par che Circe li avesse in pastura.
      Virtue is like an enemy avoided by all, as is a serpent, through misfortune of place, or through bad habit that impels them; on which account have so transformed their nature the dwellers in that miserable valley, it seems that Circe had them in her pasture.
    • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi, “La vita solitaria [The Solitary Life]”, in Canti, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 57:
      La mattutina pioggia, allor che, l’ale ¶ battendo, esulta nella chiusa stanza ¶ la gallinella, ed al balcon s’affaccia ¶ l’abitator de’ campi, e il sol che nasce ¶ i suoi tremuli rai fra le cadenti ¶ stille saetta, alla capanna mia ¶ dolcemente picchiando, mi risveglia
      The morning rain, when the hen, beating her wings, exults in her closed run, and the countryside dweller goes by the balcony, and the rising sun throws its tremulous rays among the falling drops, gently striking on my cabin, wakes me.
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