angue (pluralangues)
- snake;serpent
Borrowed fromLatinanguem, form ofanguis, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂éngʷʰis(“snake”).
angue m or(occasionally)f (pluralangui)
- (literary)serpent,snake
- Synonyms:(literary)colubro,serpe,serpente
1321,Dante Alighieri,La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published1994, Canto Ⅶ, page111, lines82–84:per ch'una gente impera e l'altra langue, ¶ seguendo lo giudicio di costei, ¶ che è occulto come in erba l'angue.- Therefore one people triumphs, and another languishes, in pursuance of her judgment, which hidden is, as in the grass aserpent.
1573,Torquato Tasso,Aminta[1], Aldo Manuzio, published1583, act 2, scene 1,page45:Celan le ſelue,angui, leoni, & orſi ¶ Dentro il lor uerde, e tu dentro al bel petto ¶ Naſcondi odio, diſdegno, et impietate, ¶ Fere peggior, ch’angui, leoni, & orſi:- The woods concealserpents, lions and bears in their green, and you conceal hatred, contempt and mercilessness, beasts worse thanserpents, lions and bears
1892,Gabriele D'Annunzio, “La passeggiata [The Walk]”, inPoema paradisiaco[2], collected inD'Annunzio: versi d'amore e di gloria, volume 2, Milan, published2004,Hortus conclusus, lines61–64:[…] grandi medusèi capelli ¶ bruni come le brune foglie morte ¶ ma vivi e fien come l’angui attorte ¶ de la Górgone[…]- large Medusa hair, brown like the brown dead leaves, but alive, and will be alike to the twistedserpents of the Gorgon
- (zoology) any member of theAnguis taxonomicgenus,particularly theslowworm (Anguis fragilis)
- angue in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
anguem
- ablativesingular ofanguis
