soperchio
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soˈpɛr.kjo/
- Rhymes: -ɛrkjo
- Hyphenation: so‧pèr‧chio
Adjective
soperchio (feminine soperchia, masculine plural soperchi, feminine plural soperchie)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of soverchio
Noun
soperchio m (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of soverchio
- early 14th century, Dante, “Canto VII”, in Inferno, lines 43–48:
- Questi fuor cherci, che non han coperchio
piloso al capo, e papi e cardinali,
in cui usa avarizia il suo soperchio- Clerks those were who no hairy covering have on the head, and Popes and Cardinals, in whom avarices practises its excess.
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Adverb
soperchio
- (obsolete) Alternative form of soverchio