miseramente
Italian
Etymology
From misero, from Latin miserum. By surface analysis, misera (“unhappy”, “bleak”) + -mente (“-ly”, adverbial derivational suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.ze.raˈmen.te/
- Rhymes: -ente
- Hyphenation: mi‧se‧ra‧mén‧te
Adverb
miseramente
- miserably, wretchedly, pitifully
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto XIV, pp. 210, vv. 19-20:
- D'anime nude vidi molte gregge ¶ che piangean tutte assai miseramente, [...]
- Of naked souls beheld I many herds ¶ who all were weeping very miserably, [...]
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto XIV, pp. 210, vv. 19-20:
Related terms
- misero
Anagrams
- ammiserente