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by: Chiara Giannini - Wed, 6 Dec 2023 04:50 UTC

On Friday, March 29, 2019 at 6:47:34 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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by: Axel Reichert - Wed, 6 Dec 2023 06:02 UTC

Chiara Giannini <chiaramarina04@gmail.com> writes:

> On Friday, March 29, 2019 at 6:47:34 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

Subject	Author
Una Furtiva "Lagrima" not "Lacrima"?	Chiara Giannini
Una Furtiva "Lagrima" not "Lacrima"?	Axel Reichert