zefierno

Noun

 * 1) devil, demon, archdemon
 * 2) * 1635, Pentamerone IV.5,
 * "nap"

- chi è stato lo figlio de lo Zefierno, che v'ave puosto a sti saute" ("What child of the Devil has egged you on to these tricks," Penzer tr.)


 * 1) * 1786, La Gierosalemme libberata (Neaplitan tr. of Jerusalem Delivered), Canto IX.15,
 * "nap"

- Protone sbacantaje lo Nfierno, e ffore/ Sgrottaie co li Zefierne lo scorore (for "Grim Pluto emptied hell's abyss, and poured/From gloomy Tartarus his blackest night", Sir John Kingston James tr.)