testeso

Italian

Etymology

Perhaps from a contraction of teso teso.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tesˈte.zo/
  • Rhymes: -ezo
  • Hyphenation: te‧sté‧so

Adverb

testeso

  1. (obsolete) alternative form of testé
    1. just now, just
      • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto V”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 112–114; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
        […] «Se tanto labore in bene assommi,» / disse «perché la tua faccia testeso / un lampeggiar di riso dimostrommi?»
        […] "May you finish your great labor well", he said, "but why did your face show me a flash of a smile, just now?
    2. now, right now; forthwith
      • 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata nona – Novella quarta”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎[1], Bari: Laterza, 1927:
        Deh! aspettati un poco: egli dée venir qui testeso uno, che ha pegno il mio farsetto per trentotto soldi; son certo che egli cel renderá per trentacinque pagandol testé.
        Just wait a while! Someone's coming here now, who has my doublet in pawn for thirty-eight soldi: I'm sure he will give it back to us for thirty-five if we pay him right now.
    3. shortly, soon, in a short while

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