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olire
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Italian
Etymology
From Latin olēre (with a later change in a conjugation), from an earlier form olō, from Proto-Italic *odō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (“to smell”). Doublet of aulire.
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Verb
olìre (first-person singular present olìsco, first-person singular past historic olìi, no past participle) (obsolete, poetic)
- to smell sweetly
- (figurative) to be redolent (of)
- Era il nostro parlare negli antichi tempi rozzo e grosso e materiale, e molto piú oliva di contado che di città.
- Our speech was rough, coarse and uncouth in the old times, and was far more redolent of the countryside than of the city.
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