saetta – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of saetta

Noun: saetta
Gender: f Hyphenation: sa‧ét‧ta
Singular fsaetta
Plural fsaette

Sample Sentences

  • Et qual cervo ferito di saetta,
  • col ferro avelenato dentr’al fianco,
  • fugge […] (And like a deer wounded by an arrow, with the poisoned tip in its side, runs […]) [1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “CCIX — I dolci colli ov’io lasciai me stesso”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 9–11; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:]
  • Corda non pinse mai da sé saetta
  • che sì corresse via per l’aere snella,
  • com’io vidi una nave piccioletta
  • venir per l’acqua verso noi in quella (A cord never shot an arrow from itself that ran through the air so swift as I there saw a small ship come towards us through the water) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 13–16; 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:]
  • Ma la Fortuna, che dei pazzi ha cura,
  • del mar lo trasse nel lito di Setta,
  • in una spiaggia, lungi da le mura
  • quanto sarian duo tratti di saetta. (But Fortune—who looks after madmen—took him from the sea to the shore of the Setta, on a beach, distant from the walls the equivalent of two arrow shots.) [1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 30”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 15; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:]
  • Da tutte parti saettava il giorno
  • lo sol, ch’avea con le saette conte
  • di mezzo ’l ciel cacciato Capricorno (On all sides was darting forth the day the sun, who had, with its resplendent shafts chased the Capricorn away from the middle of the sky) [1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 55–57; 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:]
  • In questa Pisa santa e benedetta,
  • Dottori, galeotti e cavalieri,
  • Fuor di lor non si trova una saetta! (In this Pisa—blessed and holy—[there are] doctors, convicts, and knights. Apart from them, there's nothing to be found!) [1830, Antonio Guadagnoli, Epistola, published 1861, page 94, lines 1–3, collected in Poesie inedite:]

Etymology

From Latin sagitta (“arrow”). See: Latin Nouns 'sagitta'.

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