margherita
See also: Margherita
English
Italian
Alternative forms
- margarita (archaic)
Etymology
From earlier margarita, from Latin margarīta, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), from a loanword of Eastern origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mar.ɡeˈri.ta/
- Rhymes: -ita
- Hyphenation: mar‧ghe‧rì‧ta
Noun
margherita f (plural margherite)
- (obsolete) pearl
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXII, p. 401, vv. 28-30:
- [...] e la maggiore e la più luculenta ¶ di quelle margherite innanzi fessi, ¶ per far di sé la mia voglia contenta.
- [...] and now the largest and most luculent ¶ among those pearls came forward, that it might ¶ make my desire concerning it content.
- daisy
Derived terms
Swedish
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