cammin

Italian

Noun

cammin m (apocopated)

  1. (poetic, literary) apocopic form of cammino; way, journey
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 1–3; 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:
      Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ¶ mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ¶ ché la diritta via era smarrita.
      Midway upon the journey of our life ¶ I found myself within a forest dark, ¶ for the straightforward pathway had been lost.
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