pelago – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of pelago

Noun: pelago
Gender: m Hyphenation: pè‧la‧go
Singular mpelago
Plural mpelaghi

Sample Sentences

  • E come quei che con lena affannata,
  • uscito fuor del pelago a la riva,
  • si volge a l’acqua perigliosa e guata (And even as he, who, with distressful breath, forth issued from the sea upon the shore, turns to the water perilous and gazes) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 22–24; 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:]
  • Qual sovra la profonda
  • Pace del glauco pelago
  • Uscí Venere, […] (Like Venus having risen upon the profound calm of the white sea […]) [1850, Giosuè Carducci, “Canto di primavera”, in Juvenilia, volume Libro II, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 41, lines 1–3:]
  • quel piacere che egli è usato di porgere a chi troppo non si mette ne’ suoi piú cupi pelaghi navigando (that pleasure, that He [Love] usually grants to those who do not sail in his darkest seas) [1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Proemio”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, volume 1, Bari: Laterza, 1927:]
  • mi ricordo ancora, che quando studiavo filosofia, non restai persuaso dalla dimostrazione d'Aristotile; anzi che avevo molte esperienze in contrario: le quali vi potrei anco addurre, ma non voglio, che entriamo in altri pelaghi (I still remember, when I was studying philosophy, not being convinced by Aristotle's demonstration, but rather having many experiences to the contrary, which I might even mention, but I'd rather not open other cans of worms) [17ᵗʰ c., Galileo Galilei, Dialogo terzo, collected in Opere di Galileo Galilei, volume 4, Padova, published 1744, page 200:]

Nouns inflected like pelago

sbrego, sbergo, sbarco, sbocco, sbieco, sarago, scacco, scalco, scinco, diftongo, smacco, smergo, slargo, guidalesco, pacciugo, antiscialagogo, rinfresco, granturco, pappalecco, rinfianco, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pelagus, from Ancient Greek πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”). See: Latin Nouns 'pelagus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πέλαγος'.

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