omai

• IPA^(key): /oˈmaj/
• Rhymes: -aj
• Hyphenation: o‧mài

omai

1. (archaic, poetic) contraction of oggimai

   Synonyms: oramai, ormai

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 97–99; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Or discendiamo omai a maggior pieta;
     già ogne stella cade che saliva
     quand'io mi mossi, e 'l troppo star si vieta

     Let us now descend to a greater torment. Every star that was rising as I set out is now falling, and one cannot stay too long

• -iamo, miao

omai f

1. dative singular of oma