soglio – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of soglio

Noun: soglio
Gender: m Hyphenation: sò‧glio
Singular msoglio
Plural msogli

Sample Sentences

  • Poi fummo dentro al soglio de la porta
  • che ’l mal amor de l’anime disusa,
  • perché fa parer dritta la via torta,
  • sonando la senti’ esser richiusa (When we had crossed the threshold of the door which the perverted love of souls disuses, because it makes the crooked way seem straight, re-echoing I heard it closed again) [1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 1–4; 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:]

Etymology

From Latin solium (“seat, throne”), from Proto-Indo-European *sodyom, derived from *sed- (“to sit”). See: Latin Nouns 'solium'.

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