fian
See also: fían
Esperanto
Adjective
fian
- accusative singular of fia
Italian
Alternative forms
- fien
Verb
fian
- Apocopic form of fiano, third-person plural future of fire
- early 14th century, Dante, “Canto XIX”, in Paradiso, lines 130–135:
- Vedrassi l'avarizia e la viltate
di quei che guarda l'isola del foco,
ove Anchise finì la lunga etate;
e a dare ad intender quanto è poco,
la sua scrittura fian lettere mozze,
che noteranno molto in parvo loco.- Be seen the avarice and poltroonery of him who guards the Island of the Fire, wherein Anchises finished his long life; and to declare how pitiful he is shall be his record in contracted letters which shall make note of much in little space.
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Anagrams
- anfi-, fina, naïf