# misero
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi.ze.ro/
* Rhymes: -izero
* Hyphenation: mì‧se‧ro

### Etymology 1

From Latin miserum, of uncertain origin. Possibly a borrowing.

#### Adjective

misero (feminine misera, masculine plural miseri, feminine plural misere, superlative miserrimo)
* bleak, miserable, unhappy, wretched
** 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XVII, p. 257-258 vv. 109-110:né quando Icaro misero le reni ¶ sentì spennar per la scaldata cera, [...]nor when the wretched Icarus his flanks ¶ felt stripped of feathers by the melting wax, [...]
** 1802, Ugo Foscolo, “A Luigia Pallavicini caduta da cavallo” (Scelte opere di Ugo Foscolo, Poligrafica Fiesolana, Firenze (1835), p. 22), vv. 76-78:
    Scuote l’arcion, te misera ¶ su la pietrosa riva ¶ strascinando mal vivaIt shakes the saddle, dragging ¶ you on the rocky shore, ¶ miserable and barely alive
    Synonyms: disgraziato, infelice, miserabile
    Antonyms: beato, felice, fortunato
** (by extension, of a person) destitute, indigent, poor
    Synonyms: bisognoso, indigente, povero
    Antonyms: abbiente, agiato, benestante
** (by extension, of a place) poor, underdeveloped
    Synonyms: depresso, povero, sottosviluppato
    Antonyms: fiorente, prospero, ricco
* inadequate, insufficient, meager
    Un misero salario.A meager salary.
    Synonyms: insufficiente, irrisorio, magro, scarso
    Antonyms: abbondante, cospicuo, lauto
* contemptible, despicable, miserable, sleazy
** 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto III, p. 37-38 vv. 34-36:Ed elli a me: «Questo misero modo ¶ tegnon l'anime triste di coloro ¶ che visser sanza 'nfamia e sanza lodo. [...]»And he to me: «This miserable mode ¶ maintain the melancholy souls of those ¶ who lived withouten infamy or praise. [...]»
    Synonyms: abietto, ignobile, meschino, spregevole
    Antonym: nobile
* (archaic) avaricious, covetous, stingy, ungenerous
** 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decamerone, Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page 250:[...] non ad ammaſſare denari, come i miſeri fanno, ma ad iſpender gli ammaſſati [...][...] not to amass money, like the avaricious do, but to spend that collected [...]
** 1532, Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe, published 1537, page 29:[...] miſero chiamiamo quello che troppo ſi aſtiene dallo vſar il ſuo.it's called stingy he who excessively withholds his own [money].
    Synonyms: avaro, taccagno, tirchio
    Antonyms: generoso, munifico, prodigo

##### Derived terms

* miseramente

##### Related terms

* miserabile
* miserevole
* miseria

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

misero
* third-person plural past historic of mettere

### Anagrams

* Moresi, reismo

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmi.se.roː/, [ˈmɪs̠ɛroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmi.se.ro/, [ˈmiːs̬ero]

### Adjective

miserō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of miser

### Verb

mīserō
* first-person singular future perfect active indicative of mittō

### Verb

miserō (present infinitive miserāre, perfect active miserāvī, supine miserātum); first conjugation
* Alternative form of miseror

#### Conjugation
### References

* “misero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* misero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.