richiesta Italian · revision 38238

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /riˈkjɛs.ta/, /riˈkjes.ta/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''richiesta''' ''f'' (plural richieste)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old forms include [[roa-oit|richesta]] and [[roa-oit|rinchiesta]].^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the feminine of [[richiesto]], the past participle of [[richiedere|t=to ask for, request]], used as a noun.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) The verb is formed from [[chiedere]] with the intensive prefix [[ri-]], on the model of [[la-vul|*requaerō|alt=*requaerere]].^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003) Wiktionary takes the Vulgar Latin verb from [[la|requīrō|t=to seek again; to require]], with /r/–/r/ dissimilated to /d/–/r/; the classical verb gave the learned [[requisire]].^(Wiktionary)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Nocentini, Devoto–Oli and Sabatini–Coletti date the word to the 12th century.^(Nocentini 2010)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026) DELI's first examples are of ''richesta'' in Bono Giamboni's ''Vizi e virtù'', before 1292, and in the ''Novellino'' at the end of the 13th century, where a friend grants the hermit's request (''L'amico fornì la richèsta del romito'').^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Dante in the ''Convivio'' praises the prudent man who gives advice without being asked (''sanza richesta'').^(GDLI) The sense of a formal petition appears as ''rinchiesta'' in the statute of the Sienese wool guild of 1298–1309, and as ''richiesta'' in Giovanni Villani before 1348;^(DELI 1999) Boccaccio uses the word in 1348–1353.^(DELI 1999)

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+ Later uses came with modern institutions: a request for a repeat performance (Tommaseo, 1872), the written application for a document (Petrocchi, 1891), and in 1959 the form on which it is made and the price or fee asked for something.^(DELI 1999) In economics ''richiesta'' is the demand for goods or labour.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 12th century – Nocentini's date for the word.^(Nocentini 2010)

+ * Before 1292 – ''Richesta'' in Bono Giamboni.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1298–1309 – ''Rinchiesta'' “petition” in the Sienese wool guild statute.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1348 – Giovanni Villani uses ''richiesta''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1872 – Tommaseo records a request for a repeat performance.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1891 – Petrocchi records the bureaucratic application.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1959 – The senses “application form” and “price asked” are recorded.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|request]], the act of asking for something, and the thing asked for: ''La sua richiesta di aiuto è rimasta senza risposta.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # [[m|en|demand]] for goods or services: ''In estate cresce la richiesta di gelati.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

+ # The price or fee asked: ''Il venditore ha abbassato la sua richiesta.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # A question asking for information.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Gabrielli 2020)

+ # ''(bureaucracy)'' A written [[m|en|application]] for a document or permit, and the form on which it is made.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[richiedere]]

+ * [[chiedere]]

+ * [[richiesto]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''A richiesta'' and ''su richiesta'' mean on request;^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011) ''a grande richiesta'' means by popular demand, and a ''fermata a richiesta'' is a request stop.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}