scerpare

• scerpere (archaic)

With a change in conjugation, from Latin excerpere (“to choose, select”).

• IPA^(key): ^*/ʃerˈpa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: scer‧pà‧re

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1. (archaic or literary) to rend, to tear off
   • 1314, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno‎, lines 34–36; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1994:

     Da che fatto fu poi di sangue bruno,
     ricominciò a dir: “Perché mi scerpi?
     non hai tu spirto di pietade alcuno? […]”

     After it had become embrowned with blood,
     it recommenced its cry: “Why dost thou rend me? ⁠
     Hast thou no spirit of pity whatsoever? […]”

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• scerpare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• crespare, cresperà, sprecare