periglioso

From periglio, from Old Occitan perilh, from Latin perīculum. By surface analysis, periglio (“danger”) +‎ -oso (“-ous”).

• IPA^(key): /pe.riʎˈʎo.zo/, (traditional) /pe.riʎˈʎo.so/
• Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
• Hyphenation: pe‧ri‧glió‧so

periglioso (feminine perigliosa, masculine plural perigliosi, feminine plural perigliose)

1. (literary, archaic) alternative form of pericoloso (“dangerous”)
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 22–24; 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:

     E come quei che con lena affannata, / uscito fuor del pelago a la riva, / si volge a l’acqua perigliosa e guata, […]

     And as one who, with gaspy breath, having come out of the sea upon the shore, turns to the dangerous water and gazes, […]

• perigliosamente