periglioso

Italian

Etymology

From periglio, from Old Occitan perilh, from Latin perīculum. By surface analysis, periglio (“danger”) +‎ -oso (“-ous”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pe.riʎˈʎo.zo/, (traditional) /pe.riʎˈʎo.so/
  • Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
  • Hyphenation: pe‧ri‧glió‧so

Adjective

periglioso (feminine perigliosa, masculine plural perigliosi, feminine plural perigliose)

  1. (literary, archaic) Alternative form of pericoloso (“dangerous”)
    • mid 1300s–mid 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:
      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; […]

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