Noun: badia
Gender: f
Hyphenation: ba‧dì‧a
| Singular f | badia |
| Plural f | badie |
Sample Sentences
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Ma, per salirla, mo nessun diparte
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da terra i piedi, e la regola mia
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rimasa è per danno de le carte.
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Le mura che solieno esser badia
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fatte sono spelonche […] (But to ascend it now no one uplifts his feet from off the earth, and now my Rule below remaines for mere waste of paper. The walls that used of old to be an Abbey are changed to dens of robbers) [1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 73–77; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
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tornato in Firenze, tutto suo patrimonio d’Alamagna fece vendere, e ordinò e fece fare sette badie: la prima fu la Badia di Firenze a onore di santa Maria (Having returned to Florence, he had all his property in Germany sold, and commissioned the making of seven abbeys: the first one was the abbey of Florence, in honor of St. Mary) [1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro quinto [Fifth Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle], published 1991, section 2:]
Nouns inflected like badia
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Late Latin abbātīa, derived from Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbazia. See: Latin Nouns '
abbās'.
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