Arrivederci
intj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An Italian farewell by saying "arrivederci".
"We said our arrivedercis to the people in the town the night before, as we made our rounds to about eight or ten homes and said goodbye to about thirty or forty “cousins.”"
- 2 a farewell remark wordnet
- 1 farewell, goodbye, see you later (non-definitive farewell)
Example
More examples"We said our arrivedercis to the people in the town the night before, as we made our rounds to about eight or ten homes and said goodbye to about thirty or forty “cousins.”"
Etymology
From Italian arrivederci (“goodbye”), from a (“to”) with rivederci (“to see each other again”), from the infinitive rivedersi (“to see each other again, to meet again”), from ri- (“re-”) with the infinitive vedersi (“to see each other”), from vedere (“to see”) with the variable pronoun si (“oneself; one another”).
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