soperchio

• IPA^(key): /soˈpɛr.kjo/
• Rhymes: -ɛrkjo
• Hyphenation: so‧pèr‧chio

soperchio (feminine soperchia, masculine plural soperchi, feminine plural soperchie)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of soverchio

soperchio m (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of soverchio
   • early 14^th century, Dante, “Canto VII”, in Inferno, lines 43–48:

     Questi fuor cherci, che non han coperchio
     piloso al capo, e papi e cardinali,
     in cui usa avarizia il suo soperchio

     Clerks those were who no hairy covering have on the head, and Popes and Cardinals, in whom avarices practises its excess.

soperchio

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of soverchio