pieta
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
pieta (plural pietas)
- Alternative form of pietà
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First used by Dante, with an accent that corresponds to the one of the nominative of the Latin etymon pietās.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pieta f (invariable)
- (rare, poetic, Dantesque) Alternative form of pietà
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 19–21; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
Further reading[edit]
- pièta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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