Skip to content

descoverta

discovery

noun deh-skoh-VER-tah Rare

Usage Note

Descoverta is an archaic or dialectal variant of scoperta (discovery). It appears in older Italian texts and in some southern dialects, but is not used in modern standard Italian. A learner encountering it in a historical text should read it as scoperta. The standard modern word for discovery is scoperta.

Examples

"La descoverta del documento fu un evento raro."

Natural Translation

The discovery of the document was a rare event.

Explore Italian by topic