angue
Interlingua
Noun
angue (plural angues)
- snake; serpent
Synonyms
- serpente
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin anguem, form of anguis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈan.ɡwe/
- Rhymes: -anɡwe
- Hyphenation: àn‧gue
Noun
angue m or (occasionally) f (plural angui)
- (literary) serpent, snake
- Synonyms: (literary) colubro, serpe, serpente
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto Ⅶ, lines 82-84, page 111:
- per ch'una gente impera e l'altra langue, ¶ seguendo lo giudicio di costei, ¶ che è occulto come in erba l'angue.
- Therefore one people triumphs, and another languishes, in pursuance of her judgment, which hidden is, as in the grass a serpent.
- 1573, Torquato Tasso, Aminta, Aldo Manuzio, published 1583, Act 2, scene 1, page 45:
- Celan le ſelue, angui, leoni, & orſi ¶ Dentro il lor uerde, e tu dentro al bel petto ¶ Naſcondi odio, diſdegno, et impietate, ¶ Fere peggior, ch’angui, leoni, & orſi:
- The woods conceal serpents, lions and bears in their green, and you conceal hatred, contempt and mercilessness, beasts worse than serpents, lions and bears
- 1892, Gabriele D'Annunzio, “La passeggiata [The Walk]”, in Poema paradisiaco, collected in D'Annunzio: versi d'amore e di gloria, volume 2, Milan, published 2004, Hortus conclusus, lines 61–64:
- […] grandi medusèi capelli ¶ bruni come le brune foglie morte ¶ ma vivi e fien come l’angui attorte ¶ de la Górgone […]
- large Medusa hair, brown like the brown dead leaves, but alive, and will be alike to the twisted serpents of the Gorgon
- (zoology) any member of the Anguis taxonomic genus, particularly the slowworm (Anguis fragilis)
Related terms
- anguilla
Further reading
- angue in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Noun
angue m
- ablative singular of anguis