entrambi Italian · revision 37722

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /enˈtram.bi/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''entrambi''' ''m pl'' (feminine entrambe)^(Wiktionary)

+ The TLIO lists old forms such as [[roa-oit|intrambi]], [[m|roa-oit|intrambo]] and [[m|roa-oit|trambi]].^(TLIO) A singular form ''entrambo'' is archaic.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(GDLI|5, 170)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It continues the phrase [[inh|la|inter ambōs|t=between both]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Wiktionary) The phrase is made of [[la|inter|t=between]] and [[m|la|ambō|t=both]].^(Devoto 1968)^(Nocentini 2010) DEI and GDLI note that it survives in Italian, Occitan, Spanish and Portuguese.^(DEI|1488)^(GDLI|5, 170) Meyer-Lübke observed that ⟨inter… et⟩ joined two subjects or objects in the older stages of nearly all the Romance languages.^(REW 1935)

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+ Latin ⟨ambo⟩ keeps the old dual ending ⟨-ō⟩; de Vaan reconstructs [[ine-pro|*h₂(e)nt-bʰoH|t=both]], perhaps from a case form of the word for “face”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLIO's first record is in the ''Splanamento'' of Patecchio of Cremona, in the first part of the 13th century, as a pronoun meaning “both”.^(TLIO) DELI dates the word to the 13th century, in a vernacular ''Panfilo'', and Zingarelli to before 1294.^(DELI 1999)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Old Italian the word was a pronoun and an adjective meaning “both”, also next to a personal pronoun.^(TLIO) Petrarch uses it in the ''Trionfi'', and Tasso writes of two lovers who “fall both, one upon the other” (''Caggiono entrambi, e l'un su l'altro langue'').^(GDLI|5, 170) In modern Italian it is the usual word for “both” beside ''ambedue'', and as an adjective it is always followed by the definite article.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 13th century – Patecchio of Cremona uses ''entrambi''.^(TLIO)

+ * Before 1294 – Zingarelli's date of first record.^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Pronoun===

+ # [[m|en|both]], the one and the other: ''Sono partiti entrambi'', ''Le ho invitate entrambe.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Both (followed by the definite article): ''entrambi i fratelli'', ''entrambe le mani''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ambedue]]

+ * [[ambo]]

+ * [[tra]]

+ * [[la|ambō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The feminine is ''entrambe''.^(Wiktionary)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026) A synonym is ''ambedue''.^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}