Noun: soverchio
Gender: m
Hyphenation: so‧vèr‧chio
Sample Sentences
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ciò che non corse in dietro e si ritenne
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di quel soverchio, fé naso a la faccia
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e le labbra ingrossò quanto convenne. (What did not backward run and was retained of that excess made to the face a nose, and the lips thickened far as was befitting.) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 127–129; 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:]
Nouns inflected like soverchio
sfottò,
pentafluoruro di arsenico,
strasserismo,
sbrinz,
scolapiatti,
sbatti,
server,
setter,
seitan,
iceberg,
savere,
satana,
safari,
salumi,
saloon,
salmoè,
scuter,
scerpa,
sciarm,
scotch, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *superculum. Compare Sicilian superchiu.
Verbs referencing "soverchio"
Galician Nouns
sobexo.
Translations