soperchio

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soˈpɛr.kjo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrkjo
  • Hyphenation: so‧pèr‧chio

Adjective

soperchio (feminine soperchia, masculine plural soperchi, feminine plural soperchie)

  1. (obsolete) alternative form of soverchio

Noun

soperchio m (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) alternative form of soverchio
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 43–48; 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:
      Questi fuor cherci, che non han coperchio
      piloso al capo, e papi e cardinali,
      in cui usa avarizia il suo soperchio
      Clerks those were who no hairy covering
      have on the head, and Popes and Cardinals,
      in whom avarices practises its excess.

Adverb

soperchio

  1. (obsolete) alternative form of soverchio
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