confronto Italian · revision 39016

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=before 1675, Emanuele Tesauro|origins=la frōns}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /konˈfron.to/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''confronto''' ''m'' (plural confronti)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a deverbal noun from [[confrontare|t=to compare]], formed without a suffix.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Wiktionary) The verb is recorded from the end of the 14th century;^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(Wiktionary) DELI derives it from French [[m|fr|confronter]] (14th century), Nocentini and Wiktionary directly from Medieval Latin [[m|la-med|cōnfrontō|alt=cōnfrontāre]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(Wiktionary) The Latin verb is built on [[la|frōns|t=forehead; front]] with the prefix [[m|la|con-]], so it first meant “to set face to face”.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI's first record is in Emanuele Tesauro (before 1675), in the sense “the act or result of comparing”.^(DELI 1999)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Writers of the 17th and 18th centuries used it for a comparison or a check: Segneri, Gasparo Gozzi, Baretti and Alfieri all have it.^(GDLI) Tommaseo distinguished it from ''paragone'': a ''confronto'' sets things side by side, two at a time, looking for closer correspondences.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ Manzoni (1842) has the legal sense, the confrontation of witnesses or defendants whose statements disagree.^(DELI 1999) The modern dictionaries add a debate between opposing views, a sports match, and the collation of manuscripts in philology.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010) The ''confronto all'americana'' is the police line-up, in which a witness picks a suspect out of a group of people who look alike.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Late 14th century – The verb ''confrontare'' is first recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1675 – Emanuele Tesauro uses ''confronto''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1842 – Manzoni uses it for the legal confrontation of witnesses.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|comparison]]: the act of comparing people or things, and its result: ''Il confronto fra le due traduzioni mostra molte differenze.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # A debate or exchange between people holding different views: ''un confronto televisivo tra i candidati''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(sports)'' A [[gara|alt=match]] or contest: ''La squadra ha perso il confronto diretto.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(law)'' The simultaneous questioning of witnesses or defendants whose earlier statements disagree, a [[m|en|confrontation]].^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(philology)'' The [[collazione|alt=collation]] of manuscripts.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020)

+ # ''(computing)'' The comparison of two numerical data.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[confrontare]]

+ * [[raffronto]]

+ * [[fronte]]

+ * [[affrontare]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''In confronto a'' and ''a confronto di'' mean “compared with”;^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011) ''nei confronti di'' means “towards, with regard to”.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011) ''Senza confronto'' means “incomparably”, ''non temere confronti'' “to be second to none”, and ''reggere il confronto'' “to stand comparison”.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}