scorso Italian · revision 38248

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 1340, Palladio volgarizzato|origins=la currō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈskor.so/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''scorso''' (feminine scorsa, masculine plural scorsi, feminine plural scorse)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old Italian also wrote [[m|roa-oit|scorzo]].^(GDLI)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the past participle of [[scorrere|t=to run, to flow; to pass]], used as an adjective and a noun.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010) According to the LEI and Wiktionary, it is [[inh|la|excursus|t=run out; a sally]], the perfect passive participle of [[m|la|excurrō|t=to run out]], formed [[m|la|ex-]] and [[m|la|currō|t=to run]].^(LEI|22, 52)^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012) The same participle continues in [[fr|écours]], recorded in 1458.^(LEI|22, 52) The learned [[excursus]], a digression, is the same Latin word, which spread as a term of philology from the Germanic languages.^(LEI|22, 52)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI's first record is the Italian translation of Palladius, around 1340, where ''scorso'' means “gone by, passed”.^(DELI 1999) The LEI has an earlier Old Tuscan noun ''scorso'', “execution of a sentence”, in a translation of Valerius Maximus of about 1336.^(LEI|22, 52)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Old Italian the participle had wider senses: Palladius warns against grapes “too far gone in ripeness” (''troppo scorse di maturezza''), and in Giovanni Villani the ''scorso e corrotto volgare'' is the debased common speech.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) The time sense, “last”, is the commonest today: Manzoni writes ''l'anno scorso, non avanzò nulla'', “last year nothing was left over”.^(GDLI)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ As a noun ''scorso'' meant a rash word (''scorso di lingua'', in a 14th-century translation of Saint Gregory), and, from 1573–1574 an error made through haste or distraction.^(DELI 1999)^(LEI|22, 52) The LEI records further senses: a current of water (1550), licence or loose morals (Davanzati, before 1606), an outburst of feeling (Bartoli, 1663), a digression (Salvini, before 1729) and a moral fault (Gioberti, 1847).^(LEI|22, 52) ''Scorso di penna'', a slip of the pen, runs from Vincenzio Borghini to Carducci, and ''scorso di memoria'' from 1847.^(LEI|22, 52) The feminine noun ''scorsa'', a quick look or a quick trip, is recorded from the 17th century.^(DEI|3419)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * About 1336 – The noun ''scorso'' appears in a translation of Valerius Maximus.^(LEI|22, 52)

+ * About 1340 – The Palladius translation uses the participle for “passed”.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 14th century – ''Scorso di lingua'', a rash word, in a translation of Saint Gregory.^(LEI|22, 52)

+ * 1573–1574 – The noun means a slip, in the ''Annotazioni'' to the ''Decameron''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1580 – Vincenzio Borghini has ''scorso di penna''.^(LEI|22, 52)

+ * 1847 – Gioberti has ''scorso di memoria''.^(LEI|22, 52)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|last]], of the period just before the present: ''Ci siamo visti martedì scorso.'' ''L'anno scorso'' is last year.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(literary)'' Past, bygone, [[trascorso]].^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(uncommon)'' A [[m|en|slip]], an error made through haste or inattention: ''uno scorso di penna''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(archaic)'' Licence, excess.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[scorsa]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scorrere]]

+ * [[trascorso]]

+ * [[excursus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}