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Old Italian

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Etymology

Old + Italian, on the pattern of Old English

Definitions

  1. The continuum of languages derived from Vulgar Latin spoken in the Italian peninsula…

    The continuum of languages derived from Vulgar Latin spoken in the Italian peninsula between circa 960 and the establishment of the Accademia della Crusca in 1582.

    • The theory that there was a spontaneous development of an obscure vowel in final position on certain occasions in Old Italian has gained general currency and has been carried on in the works of the main authorities.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Old Italian. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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