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Consulta il dizionario etimologico online: www.etimo.it Se cerchi "scorta" troverai che offre i significati di "escort" o "provision" (scorta, sostantivo femminile) e di "seen" o "glimpsed" (scorto/a, participio passato del verbo scorgere).
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Caro collega,
Standard dictionaries give "veduto, percepito, notato" as one of the definitions. Did you check out the site with multiple dictionaries, http://sicapisce.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/dizionari-online/ ?
Among these are:
http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/tag/scorte/
http://www.grandidizionari.it/Dizionario_Italiano/parola/S/scorto_1.aspx?query=scorto+(1)
Things "seen" as related to eyes might make sense?
Hope this helps.
LZM
L. Zarker Morgan
Professor of Italian and French
Loyola University Maryland
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Dear Colleagues, I'm translating a sonnet by Gaspara Stampa (the one usually numbered 220) in which she appears to describe her lover's eyes as "due fide scorte". This is not a metaphor I have discovered anywhere else, and I wonder if others know of works in which it might appear. No etymological dictionary to which I have access records this use of "scorte".
Your suggestions will be much appreciated.
Here are the lines in question:
"a voi convien per quel gentil instinto, che natura e virtú v'han dato in sorte, volger pietoso le due fide scorte verso chi di suo grado avete vinto."
Grazie tante in anticipo,
Adam Elgar
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