assediato
Italian
Etymology
Past participle of assediare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /as.seˈdja.to/
- Rhymes: -ato
- Hyphenation: as‧se‧dià‧to
Participle
assediato (feminine assediata, masculine plural assediati, feminine plural assediate)
- past participle of assediare
Adjective
assediato (feminine assediata, masculine plural assediati, feminine plural assediate)
- besieged
- Antonym: assediante
- 1358–1361 [578–595], Zanobi da Strada, transl., Morali del pontefice S. Gregorio Magno sopra il Libro di Giobbe [Morals of pontiff St. Gregory the Great on the Book of Job] (Biblical commentary), translation of Mōrālia in Iōb by Gregorius Anicius (in Late Latin); republished as “Libro XXXI [Book 31]”, in I morali del pontefice S. Gregorio Magno sopra il Libro di Giobbe volgarizzati da Zanobi da Strata[1], volume 4, Rome: Rocco Bernabò, 1730, section 24, page 357:
- E pertanto il fortiſſimo cavaliere fugge del luogo aſſediato per poter combatter meglio nel largo campo.
- [E pertanto il fortissimo cavaliere fugge del luogo assediato per poter combatter meglio nel largo campo.]
- And so the strong knight flees the besieged place, in order to be able to better fight in the open field.
Noun
assediato m (plural assediati, feminine assediata)
- (chiefly in the plural) one who is experiencing a siege, one who is besieged
- Antonyms: assediante, (uncommon) assediatore
- mid 13th century–a. 1292 [5th century CE], “De' balestri, ed onagri, e scorpioni, ed arcobalestri [About crossbows, onagers, scorpions, and mounted crossbows]” (chapter 22), in Bono Giamboni, transl., Dell'arte della guerra [On the art of war], translation of Epitoma reī mīlitāris by Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (in Late Latin); republished as Dell'arte della guerra libri IV[2], Florence: Giovanni Marenigh, 1815, page 166:
- Contra le dette cose usato è di difendere gli assediati co' balestri, e gli onagri, e gli scorpioni […]
- [original: Adversum haec obsessōs dēfendere cōnsuēvērunt ballistae, onagrī, scorpiōnēs]
- The besieged are usually defended by the above with crossbows, onagers, scorpions
- (literally, “Against the said things it is used to defend the besieged with the crossbows, and the onagers, and the scorpions”)