Noun: razzo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: ràz‧zo
| Singular m | razzo |
| Plural m | razzi |
Sample Sentences
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Fannosi i razzi, in più varie maniere;
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Questi qui scoppian solo:
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Quest'altri vanno à volo
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Verso le stelle; e sol fan bel vedere:
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Questi han doppio potere,
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E letizia in lor varia,
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Che girando, e scoppiando van per l'aria (Skyrockets are made in many different ways: some just explode; some others fly towards the stars, and are just a pretty sight; some have double power, and the amusement in them differs, while they go around the air and blow up.) [1559, Canti carnascialeschi, page 422:]
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De gli occhi de la mia donna si move
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un lume sì gentil, che dove appare
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si veggion cose ch’uom non pò ritrare
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per loro altezza e per lor esser nove:
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e de’ suoi razzi sovra ’l meo cor piove
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tanta paura, che mi fa tremare (From my mistress' eyes comes a light so gentle that, where it arrives, one sees things a man cannot report, for they are so elevated and new; and from her rays rains upon my heart such fear that it makes me tremble) [13ᵗʰ c., Dante Alighieri, “De gli occhi de la mia donna si move”, in Società Dantesca Italiana, editor, Rime [Rhymes]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Rime_(Dante)), Florence, published 1960, lines 1–6, collected in Le Opere di Dante:]
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Il terzo quartiere fu tutto il sesto di Borgo e quello di San Brancazio, e chiamarlo il quartiere di Santa Maria Novella, coll’arme il campo azurro e uno sole con razzi d’oro. (The third neighbourhood/neighborhood was the whole part of Borgo and that of San Pancrazio, and was called the neighbourhood/neighborhood of Santa Maria Novella, with the coat of arms with an azure field, and a sun with golden rays.) [1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro Tredecimo [Thirteenth Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle], published 1991, section 18:]
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su la catasta formata dai razzi delle ruote, dagli sportelli, dai sedili, erano stati gettati i miserandi resti irriconoscibili dei due corpi (on the stack made from the wheels' spokes, the doors, [and] the seats, the miserable remains of the two bodies were thrown) [1909, Luigi Pirandello, I vecchi e i giovani [The Elderly and the Young]:]
Nouns inflected like razzo
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin radius. Doublet of raggio, radio, and rai, which were respectively inherited from Latin, borrowed from Latin, and borrowed from Occitan. See: Latin Nouns '
radius', Latin Nouns '
radius'.
Verbs referencing "razzo"
Polish Nouns
raca.
Translations