germe – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of germe

Noun: germe
Gender: m Hyphenation: gèr‧me
Singular mgerme
Plural mgermi

Sample Sentences

  • I doni tuoi benefica ¶ Nutra la tua virtude; ¶ Siccome il sol che schiude ¶ Dal pigro germe il fior (May your benevolent virtue nourish your gifts, like the sun that opens the flower from the lazy sprout) [1822, Alessandro Manzoni, “La Pentecoste [The Pentecost]”, in Inni sacri [Sacred Hymns], collected in Opere varie di Alessandro Manzoni, Fratelli Rechiedei, published 1881, page 678, lines 101–104:]
  • Senz'affanni non germoglia ¶ Dell'onore il germe santo ¶ Seminai, Signor, nel pianto; ¶ Nella gioia mieterò. (The holy seed of honor blossoms not without trials. I sowed, o Lord, in weeping; I shall reap in joy.) [(Can we date this quote?), Niccolò Tommaseo, Dolore e speranza [Sorrow and Hope], collected in Poesie di Niccolò Tommaseo, Successori Le Monnier, published 1872, page 196, lines 21–24:]
  • […] la Sibilla ¶ A dir riprese: Enea, germe del cielo, ¶ Lo scender ne l'Averno è cosa agevole; ¶ Chè notte e dì ne sta l'entrata aperta (the sibyl continued, "O Aeneas, son of the heavens, descending into the Avernus is easy, for its entrance is open night and day) [16th century, Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide [Aeneid], Florence: Leonardo Ciardetti, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, published 1827, Libro VI, page 270:]

Etymology

From Latin germen (“seed; origin”), from Proto-Italic *genamen, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁mn̥ (“offspring, seed”), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth, to beget”). Cognate with Irish giniúint (“procreation, birth”). See: Latin Nouns 'germen', Irish Nouns 'giniúint'.

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