Inherited fromLatinradius.Doublet ofraggio,radio, andrai, which were respectively inherited from Latin, borrowed from Latin, and borrowed from Occitan.
razzo m (pluralrazzi)
- skyrocket(firework)
1559,Canti carnascialeschi,page422:Fannosi irazzi, in più varie maniere;
Questi qui scoppian solo:
Quest'altri vanno à volo
Verso le stelle; e sol fan bel vedere:
Questi han doppio potere,
E letizia in lor varia,
Che girando, e scoppiando van per l'aria- Skyrockets are made in many different ways: some just explode; some others fly towards the stars, and are just a pretty sight; some have double power, and the amusement in them differs, while they go around the air and blow up.
- ellipsis ofrazzo di segnalazione
- rocket(rocket engine)
- (military)rocket(non guided missile)
- (obsolete)alternative form ofraggio(“ray, beam”)
13th c.,Dante Alighieri, “De gli occhi de la mia donna si move”, in Società Dantesca Italiana, editor,Rime [Rhymes][1], Florence, published1960, lines1–6, collected inLe Opere di Dante:De gli occhi de la mia donna si move
un lume sì gentil, che dove appare
si veggion cose ch’uom non pò ritrare
per loro altezza e per lor esser nove:
e de’ suoirazzi sovra ’l meo cor piove
tanta paura, che mi fa tremare- From my mistress' eyes comes a light so gentle that, where it arrives, one sees things a man cannot report, for they are so elevated and new; and from herrays rains upon my heart such fear that it makes me tremble
1348,Giovanni Villani, “Libro Tredecimo [Thirteenth Book]”, inNuova Cronica [New Chronicle][2], published1991, section 18:Il terzo quartiere fu tutto il sesto di Borgo e quello di San Brancazio, e chiamarlo il quartiere di Santa Maria Novella, coll’arme il campo azurro e uno sole conrazzi d’oro.- The third neighbourhood/neighborhood was the whole part of Borgo and that of San Pancrazio, and was called the neighbourhood/neighborhood of Santa Maria Novella, with the coat of arms with an azure field, and a sun with goldenrays.
- (regional)spoke(part of a wheel)
- Synonym:razza
1909,Luigi Pirandello,I vecchi e i giovani [The Elderly and the Young]:su la catasta formata dairazzi delle ruote, dagli sportelli, dai sedili, erano stati gettati i miserandi resti irriconoscibili dei due corpi- on the stack made from the wheels'spokes, the doors, [and] the seats, the miserable remains of the two bodies were thrown
Apheresis fromarazzo.
razzo m (pluralrazzi)
- apheretic form ofarazzo(“tapestry”)
1557,Sperone Speroni,Lettera a Giulia Sperona, published1740,page52, collected inOpere di M. Sperone Speroni degli Alvarotti - Tomo quinto:Fa che la casa sia apparecchiata , come t'ho scritto , delle spalliere del Bassan in sala e da basso , e dirazzi nella camera , ove dormo- Make it so that the house is furnished, as I wrote you, with Bassan's hangers in the living room and downstairs, and withtapestries in the room where I'll be sleeping.
- rażżo in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- razzo in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
