misero – Italian adjective declension

Italian adjective forms of misero

Adjective: misero

Hyphenation: mì‧se‧ro
Singular m.misero
Singular f.misera
Plural m.miseri
Plural f.misere

Sample Sentences

  • né quando Icaro misero le reni ¶ sentì spennar per la scaldata cera, [...] (nor when the wretched Icarus his flanks ¶ felt stripped of feathers by the melting wax, …) [1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XVII, p. 257-258 vv. 109-110:]
  • Scuote l’arcion, te misera ¶ su la pietrosa riva ¶ strascinando mal viva
  • It shakes the saddle, dragging ¶ you on the rocky shore, ¶ miserable and barely alive [1802, Ugo Foscolo, “A Luigia Pallavicini caduta da cavallo” (Scelte opere di Ugo Foscolo, Poligrafica Fiesolana, Firenze (1835), p. 22), vv. 76-78]
  • Un misero salario. (A meager salary.)
  • Ed elli a me: «Questo misero modo ¶ tegnon l'anime triste di coloro ¶ che visser sanza 'nfamia e sanza lodo. [...]» (And he to me: «This miserable mode ¶ maintain the melancholy souls of those ¶ who lived withouten infamy or praise. …») [1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto III, p. 37-38 vv. 34-36:]
  • [...] non ad ammaſſare denari, come i miſeri fanno, ma ad iſpender gli ammaſſati [...] (… not to amass money, like the avaricious do, but to spend that collected …) [1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decamerone, Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page 250:]
  • [...] miſero chiamiamo quello che troppo ſi aſtiene dallo vſar il ſuo. (it's called stingy he who excessively withholds his own [money].) [1532, Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe, published 1537, page 29:]

Etymology

From Latin miserum, of uncertain origin. Possibly a borrowing. See: Latin Adjectives 'miser'.

Verbs referencing "misero"

Romanian Adjectives mizer.

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