Old Italian en · PROPN
Etymology
Old + Italian, on the pattern of Old English
Meanings
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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.
1938, George Melville Bolling, Bernard Bloch, Language, volume 14, Linguistic Society of America, page 224:[… T]his configuration, in which the infinitive clause is a prepositional complement of a noun, could not be found in the documentary evidence of (Tuscan) Old Italian. Another diverging property in this example is the preverbal subject after prepositions, no longer common in Old Italian at the end of the fifteenth century […] [… T]he examples show the use of nonauxiliary verbs. Though similar to Old Italian, this is another difference from contemporary Italian.
2000, Guido Mensching, Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects: A Syntactic Analysis of the Romance Languages, pages 30 and 31 (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; →ISBN, 9780195133035)
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Translations (11)
es italiano antiguo (continuum of languages) · it italiano antico (continuum of languages) · nan-hbl 古意大利語 /古意大利语 (continuum of languages) · fr vieil italien (continuum of languages) · la lingua italica antīqua (continuum of languages) · vec italiàn vecio (continuum of languages) · hy հին իտալերեն (continuum of languages) · cs staroitalština (continuum of languages) · sv fornitalienska (continuum of languages) · cmn 古義大利語 /古义大利语 (continuum of languages) · cs stará italština (continuum of languages)