aprico

Borrowed from Latin aprīcus.

• IPA^(key): /aˈpri.ko/
• Rhymes: -iko
• Hyphenation: a‧prì‧co

aprico (feminine aprica, masculine plural aprici, feminine plural apriche) (poetic)

1. exposed to the sun
   • 1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “CCCIII — Amor, che meco al buon tempo ti stavi”, in Il Canzoniere, line 6; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:

     […] valli chiuse, alti colli et piagge apriche, […]

     […] closed valleys, high hills and open beaches, […]

   • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “Ⅶ. Alla primavera [7. To Spring]”, in Canti‎^[1], Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 35:

     […] se tu pur vivi,
     e se de’ nostri affanni
     cosa veruna in ciel, se nell’aprica
     terra s’alberga o nell’equoreo seno,
     pietosa no, ma spettatrice almeno.

     if you still live, if there’s truly one thing at least in heaven, or on the naked earth, or in the sea bosom, that may not pity but observes our pain.

2. (rare) clear, bright, serene
   • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “Ⅷ. Inno ai patriarchi [8. Hymn to the Patriarchs]”, in Canti‎^[2], Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 37:

     […] gl’inarati colli
     solo e muto ascendea l’aprico raggio
     di Febo e l’aurea Luna. […]

     silent and alone the clear rays of Phoebus and the golden moon climbed the uncultivated hills.

3. sun-loving

• apricare

• Caprio, capirò, porcai

From aprīcus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈpriː.koː/, [äˈpriːkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈpri.ko/, [äˈpriːko]

aprīcō (present infinitive aprīcāre, perfect active aprīcāvī, supine aprīcātum); first conjugation

1. (Late Latin) to warm in the sun

aprīcō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of aprīcus

• “aprico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aprico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.