stanotte Italian · revision 38360

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /staˈnɔt.te/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|it|sta|notte|t1=this|t2=night]], written as one word.^(DELI 1999)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary) “Sta” is the short form of [[questa]], so the compound comes from the phrase “(que)sta notte”.^(Nocentini 2010)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(Wiktionary) GRADIT derives it from “istanotte” by loss of the first syllable;^(GRADIT 2003)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) Tommaseo quotes Bembo on the forms “istanotte”, “istamane” and “istasera”, with a prefixed “i”.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) DEI and Prati refer the first part to [[roa-oit|esto|t=this]], which Körting traces to [[la|iste|t=this, that]].^(DEI|3618)^(Prati 1951|947)^(Körting 1907) The same pattern gave [[stamane]], [[stamattina]] and [[stasera]].^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto 1968)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI's first record is in the ''Novellino'', at the end of the 13th century, already with the sense “in the coming night”: ''Vedi, donna, l'uscio mi lascerai aperto stanotte'' (“Look, lady, you will leave the door open for me tonight”).^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From the start the word could point to the night in progress, the night just past or the night to come, and it still does.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003) Boccaccio's ''Decameron'' has a lover who wants to come to the lady “tonight” (''Voglio stanotte poter venir da voi'').^(GDLI)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) Spellings varied: Machiavelli wrote ''stanocte'' for letters received “last night”, and writers as late as the 19th century still wrote ''sta notte'' as two words.^(GDLI)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Late 13th century – The ''Novellino'' has the first record.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 14th century – Boccaccio uses ''stanotte'' in the ''Decameron''.^(GDLI)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

+ * Early 16th century – Machiavelli writes ''stanocte''.^(GDLI)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|tonight]]; [[m|en|last night]]: during the night now going on, the one just past or the one about to begin: ''Stanotte non ho chiuso occhio.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[stamattina]]

+ * [[stasera]]

+ * [[notte]]

+ * [[stamane]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}