Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- discendente di Davide
- Transliteration
- discendente di Davide
- Rejected alternatives
- stirpe di Davide (literary but acceptable)
Seed Of David
‘Stirpe’ (lineage/stock) is a fairly literary but still intelligible register in modern Italian, making this a comparatively lower-risk instance of the cross-language ‘seed of David’ register-drift pattern than in French, German, Dutch, or Swedish.