insalarsi

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From insalare (to salt) +‎ -si (oneself, enclitic reflexive pronoun).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /in.saˈlar.si/
  • Rhymes: -arsi
  • Hyphenation: in‧sa‧làr‧si

Verb[edit]

insalàrsi (first-person singular present mi insàlo, first-person singular past historic mi insalài, past participle insalàto)

  1. reflexive of insalare
  2. (intransitive, poetic) to become salt or saline (of a river)
    • early-mid 1310smid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎[1], lines 100–102; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Ond’ io, ch’era ora a la marina vòlto
      dove l’acqua di Tevero s’insala,
      benignamente fu’ da lui ricolto.
      Whence I, who now had turned unto that shore
      where salt the waters of the Tiber grow,
      benignantly by him have been received.

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