inclinabile
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inclīnābilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.kliˈna.bi.le/
- Rhymes: -abile
- Hyphenation: in‧cli‧nà‧bi‧le
Adjective
inclinabile (plural inclinabili)
- reclinable
- (figurative, uncommon) inclined, prone
- c. 1307, Dante Alighieri, “Trattato primo, Capitolo I [First Treatise, Chapter 1]”, in Convivio [The Banquet], Florence: Le Monnier, published 1964:
- tutti li uomini naturalmente desiderano di sapere. La ragione di che puote essere ed è che ciascuna cosa, da providenza di propria natura impinta è inclinabile a la sua propria perfezione
- All men by nature desire to know. The reason for this can be and is that each thing, impelled by a force provided by its own nature, is inclined towards its own perfection.
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Further reading
- inclinabile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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