stormo
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See also: ŝtormo
Italian
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Lombardic *sturm (“storm”). Compare German Sturm (“storm”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]stormo m (plural stormi)
- (archaic) raid, storming
- Synonym: assalto
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXII”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Io vidi già cavalier muover campo,
e cominciare stormo e far lor mostra,
e talvolta partir per loro scampo- I have erewhile seen horsemen moving camp, begin the storming, and their muster make, and sometimes starting off for their escape;
- (archaic or literary) rank (line of soldiers)
- Synonym: schiera
- (by extension) a multitude (of people or animals)
- Synonym: moltitudine
- (dated) a small group of cavalrymen
- 1873, Egidio Osio, transl., Deduzioni tattiche dalla guerra 1870-71, translation of original by Albrecht von Boguslawski, page 290:
- Appena gli stormi hanno subito la prima scarica di fuoco efficace, l'ufficiale che comanda i due squadroni chiusi e che col suo trombettiere ha accompagnato gli stormi sino a poca distanza dalla fanteria nemica, fa suonare il galoppo
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- flock (of birds or flying insects)
- Synonym: (for insects) sciame
- 1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 25”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 12; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:
- Come stormo d’augei ch’in ripa a un stagno
vola sicuro […]- As a flock of birds, which safely flies on a pond's bank
- (military, aviation) a wing (an organizational level)
- 1939, Rivista aeronautica, page 114:
- Si presenta anche la questione se sia più pratico assegnare alle divisioni, brigate e stormi
- The issue also presents itself of whether it's more practical to assign to the divisions, brigades, and wings
- 2009, Claudio Maugeri, “Capitolo I - Le operazioni belliche durante la II Guerra Mondiale [Chapter 1 - War operations during World War II]”, in Il 41° stormo - Passato, presente e futuro della componente antisom dell'Aeronautica Militare, Da Punta Stilo al trasferimento in Cirenaica, page 9:
- Il diario storico di guerra dello stormo ha inizio ufficialmente il 3 Giugno 1940
- The wing’s historical war journal officially begins on June 3rd 1940
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (wing): gruppo (a component unit of a stormo)
See also
[edit]Stormo (unità militare) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Further reading
[edit]- stormo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- stormo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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