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#* {{quote-book|de|year=1766|title=Geschichte des Agathon|author=Christoph Martin Wieland|authorlink=Christoph Martin Wieland|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2313/pg2313.html|volume=1|chapter=4|passage=Allein dieses, und eine schneeweiße Hand mit dem Anfang eines vollkommen schönen Arms war alles, was das neidische Gewand den '''vorwitzigen''' Blicken nicht versagte; {{...}}}} |
#* {{quote-book|de|year=1766|title=Geschichte des Agathon|author=Christoph Martin Wieland|authorlink=Christoph Martin Wieland|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2313/pg2313.html|volume=1|chapter=4|passage=Allein dieses, und eine schneeweiße Hand mit dem Anfang eines vollkommen schönen Arms war alles, was das neidische Gewand den '''vorwitzigen''' Blicken nicht versagte; {{...}}}} |
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#* {{RQ:Schlegel Shakespeare|play=Wie es euch gefällt|act=I|scene=ii|passage=Wohlan! Da der junge Mensch nicht hören will, so mag er auf seine eigne Gefahr '''vorwitzig''' sein.|t= Come on. Since the youth will not be entreated, his own peril on his forwardness.}} |
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Revision as of 14:55, 20 May 2024
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German virwitzec, from Old High German firiwizzīg (“curious”). By surface analysis, Vorwitz + -ig.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vorwitzig (strong nominative masculine singular vorwitziger, comparative vorwitziger, superlative am vorwitzigsten)
- meddlesome, cheeky
- Synonym: vorlaut
- 1766, Christoph Martin Wieland, chapter 4, in Geschichte des Agathon[1], volume 1:
- Allein dieses, und eine schneeweiße Hand mit dem Anfang eines vollkommen schönen Arms war alles, was das neidische Gewand den vorwitzigen Blicken nicht versagte; […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- p. 1796, August Wilhelm Schlegel, transl., Wie es euch gefällt[2], translation of As You Like It by William Shakespeare, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Wohlan! Da der junge Mensch nicht hören will, so mag er auf seine eigne Gefahr vorwitzig sein.
- Come on. Since the youth will not be entreated, his own peril on his forwardness.
Declension
Positive forms of vorwitzig
Comparative forms of vorwitzig
Superlative forms of vorwitzig
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