altierezza
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al.tjeˈret.t͡sa/
- Rhymes: -ettsa
- Hyphenation: al‧tie‧réz‧za
Noun
altierezza f (plural altierezze)
- (archaic) alternative form of alterezza
- 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata decima – Novella seconda”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron[1], Bari: Laterza, 1927:
- L’abate che, come savio, aveva l’altierezza giú posta, gli significò dove andasse e perché.
- The abbot, like a wise man, had by this laid by his pride and told him whither he went and why.