Semiramìs
See also: Semiramis
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /se.miˈra.mis/
- Rhymes: -amis
- Hyphenation: Se‧mi‧ra‧mìs
Proper noun
Semiramìs f
- medieval spelling of Semiramide
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto V”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 58–60; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Ell’è Semiramìs, di cui si legge
che succedette a Nino e fu sua sposa:
tenne la terra che ’l Soldan corregge.- She is Semiramis, of whom we read that she succeeded Ninus, and was his spouse; she held the land which now the Sultan rules.
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