oggimai
Italian
Etymology
From oggi (“today”) + mai (“never”, “ever”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɔd.d͡ʒiˈmaj/[1]
- Rhymes: -aj
- Hyphenation: og‧gi‧mài
Adverb
oggimai
- (obsolete, literary) by now, by this time, now, at this point, by then
- Synonyms: oramai, ormai
- early 14th century, Dante, “Canto XXXIV”, in Inferno, lines 25–27:
- Io non mori' e non rimasi vivo;
pensa oggimai per te, s'hai fior d'ingegno,
qual io divenni, d'uno e d'altro privo.- I did not die, and I did not remain alive; think for yourself now, if you have a bit of wisdom, what I became, deprived of both.
Related terms
- omai
References
- oggimai in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication