stremo
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See also: stremò
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
stremo (feminine strema, masculine plural stremi, feminine plural streme)
- (archaic) extreme, final
- Synonym: estremo
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIX”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 28–30; 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:
- Qual suole il fiammeggiar de le cose unte
muoversi pur su per la strema buccia,
tal era lì dai calcagni a le punte.- Even as the flame of unctuous things is wont to move upon the outer surface only, so likewise was it there from heel to point.
- 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata quinta – Novella nona”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron[3], Bari: Laterza, 1927:
- Egli, con tutto che la sua povertá fosse strema, non s’era ancor tanto avveduto quanto bisogno gli facea che egli avesse fuor d’ordine spese le sue ricchezze
- Despite his extreme poverty, he had not yet realized as much as he needed how much he had spent his money beyond his possibilities
- (archaic) extended meanings:
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
stremo m (plural stremi)
- extremity, extreme
- early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory][4], lines 124–129; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][5], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Pace volli con Dio in su lo stremo
de la mia vita; e ancor non sarebbe
lo mio dover per penitenza scemo- Peace I desired with God at the extreme of my existence, and as yet would not my debt have been by penitence discharged
- last legs, extreme limit
- essere ridotto allo stremo (delle forze)
- to be on one's last legs
- (literally, “to be reduced to the extreme (of one's strength)”)
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
stremo
Further reading[edit]
- stremo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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