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  • Re: Una Furtiva "Lagrima" not "Lacrima"?

    From Chiara Giannini@chiaramarina04@gmail.com to rec.music.opera on Tue Dec 5 20:50:33 2023
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    On Friday, March 29, 2019 at 6:47:34rC>AM UTC-7, razzking wrote:
    Here's something I've noticed over about 50 years. The aria Nemorino sings in L'elisire d'amore is always rendered as "Una Furtiva Lagrima"

    I noticed that "lagrima" is the Spanish spelling & pronunciation. The Italian word for "tear" is "lacrima." Why is this? I know languages change subtly all the time. Was there a consonant shift in Italian in the early to mid 19th century that accounts for the difference in spelling?

    A super-duper boring question perhaps
    I was wondering the same thing. I wonder why that is.
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  • From Axel Reichert@mail@axel-reichert.de to rec.music.opera on Wed Dec 6 07:02:29 2023
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    Chiara Giannini <chiaramarina04@gmail.com> writes:

    On Friday, March 29, 2019 at 6:47:34rC>AM UTC-7, razzking wrote:
    Here's something I've noticed over about 50 years. The aria Nemorino
    sings in L'elisire d'amore is always rendered as "Una Furtiva
    Lagrima"

    I noticed that "lagrima" is the Spanish spelling &
    pronunciation. The Italian word for "tear" is "lacrima." Why is
    this? I know languages change subtly all the time. Was there a
    consonant shift in Italian in the early to mid 19th century that
    accounts for the difference in spelling?

    A super-duper boring question perhaps
    I was wondering the same thing. I wonder why that is.

    https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/lacrima#Varianti

    and

    https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/lagrima

    mention "lagrima" as "antico".

    Best regards

    Axel
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