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発音

• IPA: /kənˈt͡ʃɛtəʊ/
• 韻: -ɛtəʊ

名詞

concetto (plural concetti)

1. (literature) Affected wit; a witty turn of phrase; a conceit.

   Synonym: conceit

   • 1997, James Biester, Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 32:

     Tasso in particular, Mirollo notes, treated the concetto "as the equivalent in a lyric poem of plot in longer works." Pellegrino, similarly, and with reference to Tasso, says that concetti "are the soul and the form of a composition" […]

   • 2006, Vernon Hyde Minor, The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     But to restrict the concetto to an idea or concept gives short shrift to the metaphorical and sometimes occult implications of the term. Conceit as discors concordia involves the comparison of unlike things, the finding of similarity in dissimilarity.

派生語

• concettism

Further reading

• “concetto”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “concetto”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.