trascelto
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /traʃˈʃel.to/
- Rhymes: -elto
- Hyphenation: tra‧scél‧to
Participle
trascelto (feminine trascelta, masculine plural trascelti, feminine plural trascelte)
- past participle of trascegliere
Adjective
trascelto (feminine trascelta, masculine plural trascelti, feminine plural trascelte)
- carefully-chosen
- 1810 [c. 8th century BCE], “Libro III”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade, translation of Ῑ̓λιάς (Īliás, Iliad) by Homer (in Epic Greek), lines 323–327; republished as Iliade di Omero[1], 4th edition, Milan: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, 1825:
- Venìan recando i banditori intanto / Dalla città le sacre ostie di pace, / Due trascelti agnelletti, e della terra / Giocondo frutto generoso vino / Chiuso in otre caprigno. […]
- [original: Κήρυκες δ’ ἀνὰ ἄστυ θεῶν φέρον ὅρκια πιστά, / ἄρνε δύω καὶ οἶνον ἐΰφρονα καρπὸν ἀρούρης, / ἀσκῷ ἐν αἰγείῳ]
- Kḗrukes d’ anà ástu theôn phéron hórkia pistá, / árne dúō kaì oînon eǘphrona karpòn aroúrēs, / askōî en aigeíōi
- Meanwhile, the announcers came bringing the sacred peace offerings, two carefully-selected lambs, and wine — pleasant harvest of the earth — sealed in a goat wineskin.