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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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oˈli.re/
  • Rhymes: -ire
  • Hyphenation: o‧lì‧re

Verb

More information This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up. ...

olìre (first-person singular present olìsco, first-person singular past historic olìi, no past participle) (obsolete, poetic)

  1. to smell sweetly
    Synonyms: (literary) olezzare, profumare
  2. (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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