viaggiare Italian · revision 38903

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /vi.adˈd͡ʒa.re/^(Wiktionary)

+ * Regional: /vjadˈd͡ʒa.re/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''viaggiare''' (first-person singular present viàggio, first-person singular past historic viaggiài, past participle viaggiàto, auxiliary avére)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|it|viaggio|-are|t1=journey]].^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(GDLI) Wiktionary instead takes it from [[fro|voyagier]].^(Wiktionary) The same verb is [[fr|voyager]], [[oc|viatjar]] and [[pt|viajar]].^(REW 1935)

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+ The noun [[viaggio]] is [[m|oc|viatge]], from [[la|viāticum|t=provisions for a journey]], the neuter of the adjective [[m|la|viāticus|t=of the road, of a journey]], which comes from [[m|la|via|t=road]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(REW 1935) DELI explains the Gallo-Romance route by the suffix: a native Italian form would end in [[-atico]].^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Zingarelli dates the verb to 1602.^(Zingarelli 2010) DELI's first record is in the preacher Paolo Segneri, in 1679, in the sense “to make one or more journeys”, and notes that D'Alberti's dictionary refers to Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger (1619).^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)^(DIFIT) Segneri's Lenten sermons describe the pleasure-boat traveller: “Viaggiate sedendo, viaggiate giacendo, viaggiate dormendo” (you travel sitting, you travel lying down, you travel asleep).^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Tommaseo defined the verb as going to distant places, chiefly for pleasure or learning, and recorded the saying ''Non sa molto chi vive di molto; sa molto chi viaggia di molto'' (he who lives long does not know much; he who travels much knows much).^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) He also records ''viaggiare come i bauli'' “to travel like trunks”, without learning anything on the way.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ The transitive use, “to travel through, to tour”, is recorded from 1820, and goods are said to “travel” from 1891.^(DELI 1999) The commercial traveller's sense, ''viaggiare in'' with the goods sold (''viaggiare in pellami''), is recorded from 1927, in Panzini.^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) Later figurative senses are travelling with the imagination and, in drug slang, being under the effect of a hallucinogen;^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(DELI 1999) DELI records the matching sense of ''viaggio'' from 1968.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(DELI 1999) In 19th-century England the slang Polari had ''vaggerie'' “to go, to leave”, from the Italian verb.^(DIFIT)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1602 – Zingarelli's date of first record.^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ * 1619 – Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger uses the verb, according to D'Alberti.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1679 – Paolo Segneri uses ''viaggiare'' “to travel”.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * 1820 – The transitive sense “to travel through” is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1891 – Goods are said to ''viaggiare'' “be transported”.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1927 – The sense “to work as a commercial traveller” is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Mid-19th century – Polari ''vaggerie'' “to go” is recorded in England.^(DIFIT)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|travel]], to go from one place to another, usually far away: ''Viaggiamo sempre in treno.'' Also absolutely, to make journeys.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # To work as a [[commesso]] viaggiatore, a [[m|en|commercial traveller]]; with ''in'', to deal in a kind of goods.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # To run, to move along a route (of a vehicle), often with a speed or a delay: ''L'autobus viaggia con dieci minuti di ritardo.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # To be carried, to be [[m|en|shipped]] (of goods).^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To travel in the imagination, to daydream.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(slang)'' To be under the effect of a [[m|en|hallucinogen|alt=hallucinogenic]] drug.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To travel through, to [[m|en|tour]]: ''Ha viaggiato tutta l'Asia.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[viaggiatore]]

+ * [[viaggiante]]

+ * [[riviaggiare]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[viaggio]]

+ * [[viatico]]

+ * [[via]]

+ * [[fr|voyager]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Set phrases include ''viaggiare in incognito'' (travelling under a false name) and the jocular ''viaggiare col cavallo di San Francesco'' “to go on foot”.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) The imperative ''viaggia!'' is used to send away someone who is a nuisance.^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}