sentimento Italian · revision 38197

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /sen.tiˈmen.to/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sentimento''' ''m'' (plural sentimenti)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|it|sentire|-mento]], or taken from [[la-med|sentimentum]], itself formed from [[la|sentiō|t=to feel, perceive]] with the suffix [[m|la|-mentum]].^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary) DELI, Devoto–Oli and Treccani treat it as an Italian derivative of the verb, and DEI, GRADIT, Sabatini–Coletti and the GDLI as the Medieval Latin noun.^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(DEI|3455)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(GDLI) Tommaseo compared it with nouns such as [[patimento]] and [[godimento]].^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ DEI and the GDLI compare [[fr|sentiment]], recorded from 1314.^(DEI|3455)^(GDLI) DEI dates [[sentimentale]] to the 19th century, beside [[m|fr|sentimental]] (1769), and takes [[sentimentalismo]] from [[m|fr|sentimentalisme]] (1801).^(DEI|3455)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI's first record is in Bono Giamboni, before 1292, in the sense “perception”: “within the enclosure of the brain … the senses and feelings of the body are gathered” (''si raccolgono i sensi e' sentimenti del corpo'').^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI) GRADIT dates the word to about 1300 in the old variant ''sentemento'', which Jacopone da Todi also uses.^(GRADIT 2003)^(DEI|3455)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Old Italian the word meant above all the faculty of sense and the senses themselves: Domenico Cavalca confesses his sins of the “cinque sentimenti”, sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch.^(GDLI)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) From the 14th century it also meant understanding or knowledge, and in the 16th century the meaning of a word.^(DEI|3455) The plural for a person's moral way of thinking and acting is recorded before 1484 in Feo Belcari.^(DELI 1999) The old feminine plural ''le sentimenta'' copied the Latin plural.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ The sense “any movement of the soul, emotion, passion”, the main one today, is first recorded in the Milanese press in 1801.^(DELI 1999) Older uses survive in phrases: ''perdere i sentimenti'' is to faint, and ''uscire di sentimento'' to lose one's mind or to be beside oneself.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Before 1292 – Bono Giamboni uses ''sentimento'' for “perception”.^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI)

+ * About 1300 – The variant ''sentemento'' is recorded.^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * 1314 – French ''sentiment'' is recorded.^(DEI|3455)^(GDLI)

+ * 14th century – The word means “understanding, knowledge”.^(DEI|3455)

+ * Before 1484 – Feo Belcari uses the plural for moral character.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 16th century – The word is used for “meaning”.^(DEI|3455)

+ * 1801 – The sense “emotion, feeling” appears in the Milanese press.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|feeling]], a fairly lasting state of emotion, positive or negative: ''Provava per lui un sentimento di profonda gratitudine.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # A sensation between the mental and the physical, caused by something perceived or thought: ''un sentimento di disagio''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

+ # Feeling, emotion, as opposed to reason: ''Per una volta ha seguito il sentimento e non la testa.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Gabrielli 2020)

+ # [[m|en|sensitivity]], delicacy of feeling.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

+ # Warmth and intensity in doing something: ''Ha cantato la canzone con molto sentimento.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(chiefly plural)'' A person's way of thinking and acting, seen as a sign of his or her morals: ''una persona di nobili sentimenti''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # Awareness of a moral, civil or spiritual value, a sense of: ''il sentimento della giustizia''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(literary)'' The faculty of sense; one of the senses.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(rare)'' Consciousness, awareness of oneself, as in ''perdere i sentimenti'', to faint.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sentimentale]]

+ * [[sentimentalismo]]

+ * [[sentimentalità]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sentire]]

+ * [[senso]]

+ * [[fr|sentiment]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}