intinga
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Italian[edit]
Verb[edit]
intinga
- inflection of intingere:
Anagrams[edit]
Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From earlier *inþinga (“inside affair”). Compare Old High German insiht (“cause”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
intinga m
- cause
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The Annunciation of St. Mary"
- Swiðe þæslic anginn menniscre alysednysse wæs þæt þa se engel wearð asend fram Gode to ðam mædene, to cyðenne Godes acennednysse þurh hí; forðan ðe se forma intinga mennisces forwyrdes wæs, þaþa se deofol asende oðerne deofol, on næddran anlicnysse, to ðam frumsceapenan wífe Euan, hí to beswicenne.
- A very fitting beginning of human redemption was that when the angel was sent from God to the virgin, to announce the birth of God through her; because the first cause of man's perdition was when the devil sent another devil, in likeness of a serpent, to the first-created woman Eve, for the purpose of deceiving her.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The Annunciation of St. Mary"
- matter, affair, business