preposizione

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Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praepositiōnem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pre.po.zitˈt͡sjo.ne/
  • Rhymes: -one
  • Hyphenation: pre‧po‧si‧zió‧ne

Noun

preposizione f (plural preposizioni)

  1. (grammar) preposition
    Hyponyms: (prepositional article) preposizione articolata, (a prepositional article used with article meanings) articolo partitivo
    • 1526, Niccolò Liburnio, Le tre fontane[1], page 20:
      Ma per cagione d’eſſempio; a queſto nome Valore, & à questi due uerbi uiuere, & uſare dauanti collocando la prepoſitione à, tu componerai aualoro, aualorare: auiuo, auiuare, auſo, auſare.
      But to make an example: by putting the preposition a in front of this noun, valore, and of these verbs, vivere and usare, you will derive avaloro, avalorare; avivo, avivare; auso, ausare.
    • 1744, Jacopo Angelo Nelli, Grammatica italiana: per uso de' giovanetti[2], Torino: Stamperia Reale, page 58:
      Da alcuni grammatici ſi dividono le prepoſizioni in due ſpezie, o vogliam dire in due ſorte.
      Prepositions are divided, by some grammarians, into two species—that is, into two kinds.

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