See gente in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "E l’aspra Giuno, […] / […] / Procurerà che la romana gente / In arme e ’n toga a l’universo imperi.",
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"text": "Itala gente da le molte vite, / dove che albeggi la tua notte e un’ombra / vagoli spersa de’ vecchi anni, vedi / ivi il poeta.",
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"english": "In two such extremes are two peoples: the Italians and the French. None of them is much; the former seeing nothing, the latter everything, in themselves.",
"ref": "1789–1798, Vittorio Alfieri, “Sonetto ⅩⅩⅩⅥ. 20 febbraio 1795. [Sonnet 36 - 20 February 1795]”, in Misogallo [French-hater]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Misogallo_(Alfieri,_1903)), lines 9–11; collected in Gli epigrammi, le satire, il Misogallo di Vittorio Alfieri [The epigrams, the satires, the French-hater by Vittorio Alfieri]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Epigrammi,_Satire,_Misogallo_(Alfieri,_1903)), Turin, Rome, Milan, Florence, Naples: Ditta G. B. Paravia e comp., 1903, page 178:",
"text": "In tai due estremi, due vicine genti / Stanno, gl’Itali, e i Galli: ambo son poco; / Nulla quei, tutto questi in sè veggenti.",
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"text": "Mi volsi per veder che gente meco / Fosse de’ miei seguaci; e nullo intorno / Più non mi vidi […]",
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"english": "Love, your virtue is not understood by the world and the people, who, hurt by worthlessness, follow their doom and escape their salvation.",
"ref": "1530, Pietro Bembo, “Libro primo, Capitolo Ⅲ [First book, Chapter 3]”, in Gli Asolani [The Asolani]; collected in Carlo Dionisotti, editor, Prose della volgar lingua, Gli Asolani, Rime (I classici italiani TEA Tascabili), Milan: Editori Associati, 1989:",
"text": "Amor, la tua virtute / Non è dal mondo e da la gente intesa, / Che, da viltate offesa, / Segue suo danno e fugge sua salute.",
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"english": "No, true Freedom doesn't share its unparalleled gifts with people who lie rotten under the vortexes of all vices.",
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"text": "Suoi doni impareggiabili / No, non comparte Libertà verace / A gente, ch’infra i vortici / Dei vizj tutti putrefatta giace.",
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"english": "In the vicinity of Paris, the children of poor people generally live less than [they do] in the further provinces.",
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"text": "nei contorni di Parigi i figli della povera gente vivono in generale meno che nelle provincie lontane",
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"ref": "13ᵗʰ century, Guittone d'Arezzo, Se de voi, donna gente [If of you, gentle woman]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Rime_(Guittone_d%27Arezzo)/Se_de_voi,_donna_gente), lines 1–4; collected in Francesco Egidi, editor, Le rime di Guittone d'Arezzo [The rhymes of Guittone d'Arezzo]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Rime_(Guittone_d%27Arezzo)), Bari: Laterza, 1940, page 3:",
"text": "Se de voi, donna gente, / m’ha preso amor, no è giá meraviglia, / ma miracol somiglia / come a ciascun no ha l’anima presa",
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"Italian terms derived from Latin",
"Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Italian terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-",
"Italian terms inherited from Latin",
"Italian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Italian terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Italian terms with audio pronunciation",
"Pages with 7 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Italian/ɛnte",
"Rhymes:Italian/ɛnte/2 syllables"
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{
"word": "gentaglia"
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{
"word": "gentame"
}
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*ǵenh₁-"
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"expansion": "Latin gentem",
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"4": "gentem"
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}
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"gèn‧te"
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"parts": [
"gèn‧te"
]
}
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"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "gentile"
}
],
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"categories": [
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"it:Ancient Rome"
],
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"gens (legally defined unit of Roman society)"
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"Ancient Rome",
"Ancient Rome"
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"gens",
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"tags": [
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"archaic",
"feminine",
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"poetic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Italian terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
53,
58
]
],
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[
50,
56
]
],
"english": "And the cruel Juno will make it so that the Roman people, armed or with togas, rule over the Universe.",
"ref": "mid 1560s [29–19 BCE], “Libro primo”, in Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide, translation of Aeneis by Publius Vergilius Maro (in Classical Latin), lines 450, 453–454; republished as L’Eneide di Virgilio^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Eneide_(Caro)), Florence: G. Barbera, 1892:",
"text": "E l’aspra Giuno, […] / […] / Procurerà che la romana gente / In arme e ’n toga a l’universo imperi.",
"translation": "And the cruel Juno will make it so that the Roman people, armed or with togas, rule over the Universe.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
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6,
11
]
],
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[
8,
14
]
],
"english": "Italian people, who have many lives, wherever your night dawns, and a shadow of the past years wanders around, there you find the poet.",
"ref": "1898, Giosuè Carducci, “La chiesa di Polenta [The Church of Polenta]”, in Rime e ritmi [Rhymes and rhythms], lines 37–40; collected in Poesie di Giosuè Carducci [Poems by Giosuè Carducci]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Poesie_(Carducci)), 1906, page 1012:",
"text": "Itala gente da le molte vite, / dove che albeggi la tua notte e un’ombra / vagoli spersa de’ vecchi anni, vedi / ivi il poeta.",
"translation": "Italian people, who have many lives, wherever your night dawns, and a shadow of the past years wanders around, there you find the poet.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"glosses": [
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"word": "discendenza"
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{
"tags": [
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"word": "genia"
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{
"word": "lignaggio"
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{
"word": "progenie"
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{
"word": "razza"
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{
"tags": [
"literary"
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"word": "schiatta"
},
{
"word": "stirpe"
}
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"tags": [
"archaic",
"feminine",
"poetic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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31,
36
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119,
124
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],
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29,
36
]
],
"english": "In two such extremes are two peoples: the Italians and the French. None of them is much; the former seeing nothing, the latter everything, in themselves.",
"ref": "1789–1798, Vittorio Alfieri, “Sonetto ⅩⅩⅩⅥ. 20 febbraio 1795. [Sonnet 36 - 20 February 1795]”, in Misogallo [French-hater]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Misogallo_(Alfieri,_1903)), lines 9–11; collected in Gli epigrammi, le satire, il Misogallo di Vittorio Alfieri [The epigrams, the satires, the French-hater by Vittorio Alfieri]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Epigrammi,_Satire,_Misogallo_(Alfieri,_1903)), Turin, Rome, Milan, Florence, Naples: Ditta G. B. Paravia e comp., 1903, page 178:",
"text": "In tai due estremi, due vicine genti / Stanno, gl’Itali, e i Galli: ambo son poco; / Nulla quei, tutto questi in sè veggenti.",
"translation": "In two such extremes are two peoples: the Italians and the French. None of them is much; the former seeing nothing, the latter everything, in themselves.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"poetic"
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23,
28
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],
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[
26,
32
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],
"english": "I turned back to see what people, among my followers, was with me, and I didn't see anyone left.",
"ref": "mid 1560s [29–19 BCE], “Libro secondo”, in Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide, translation of Aeneis by Publius Vergilius Maro (in Classical Latin), lines 921–923; republished as L’Eneide di Virgilio^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Eneide_(Caro)), Florence: G. Barbera, 1892:",
"text": "Mi volsi per veder che gente meco / Fosse de’ miei seguaci; e nullo intorno / Più non mi vidi […]",
"translation": "I turned back to see what people, among my followers, was with me, and I didn't see anyone left.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"people, guys, folks (body of human beings)"
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"folks"
]
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47,
52
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[
57,
63
]
],
"english": "Love, your virtue is not understood by the world and the people, who, hurt by worthlessness, follow their doom and escape their salvation.",
"ref": "1530, Pietro Bembo, “Libro primo, Capitolo Ⅲ [First book, Chapter 3]”, in Gli Asolani [The Asolani]; collected in Carlo Dionisotti, editor, Prose della volgar lingua, Gli Asolani, Rime (I classici italiani TEA Tascabili), Milan: Editori Associati, 1989:",
"text": "Amor, la tua virtute / Non è dal mondo e da la gente intesa, / Che, da viltate offesa, / Segue suo danno e fugge sua salute.",
"translation": "Love, your virtue is not understood by the world and the people, who, hurt by worthlessness, follow their doom and escape their salvation.",
"type": "quotation"
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63,
68
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59,
65
]
],
"english": "No, true Freedom doesn't share its unparalleled gifts with people who lie rotten under the vortexes of all vices.",
"ref": "1789–1798, Vittorio Alfieri, “Ode - 29 decembre 1792. [Ode - 29 December 1792]”, in Misogallo [French-hater]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Misogallo_(Alfieri,_1903)); collected in Gli epigrammi, le satire, il Misogallo di Vittorio Alfieri [The epigrams, the satires, the French-hater by Vittorio Alfieri]^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Epigrammi,_Satire,_Misogallo_(Alfieri,_1903)), Turin, Rome, Milan, Florence, Naples: Ditta G. B. Paravia e comp., 1903, page 157:",
"text": "Suoi doni impareggiabili / No, non comparte Libertà verace / A gente, ch’infra i vortici / Dei vizj tutti putrefatta giace.",
"translation": "No, true Freedom doesn't share its unparalleled gifts with people who lie rotten under the vortexes of all vices.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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[
44,
49
]
],
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[
47,
53
]
],
"english": "In the vicinity of Paris, the children of poor people generally live less than [they do] in the further provinces.",
"ref": "1804, Cesare Beccaria, “Parte prima - Principii e viste generali [General principles and viewpoints]”, in Elementi di economia pubblica [Elements of public economics], section 45; collected in Opere di Cesare Beccaria, volume 2, Milan: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, 1822, page 66:",
"text": "nei contorni di Parigi i figli della povera gente vivono in generale meno che nelle provincie lontane",
"translation": "In the vicinity of Paris, the children of poor people generally live less than [they do] in the further provinces.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"people (mass of a community)"
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"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒɛn.te/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛnte"
}
],
"word": "gente"
}
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