allor che

Italian

Adverb

allor che

  1. Alternative form of allorché
    • early-mid 1310s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVIII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎, lines 76, 79–81; 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:
      La luna […]
      correa contra ’l ciel per quelle strade
      che ’l sole infiamma allor che quel da Roma
      tra ’ Sardi e ’ Corsi il vede quando cade.
      The moon […]
      was rising in the sky in the direction opposite
      to that of the Sun, when someone in Rome
      sees it set between Sardinia and Corsica.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see allor,‎ che.
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