termine formale che sostituisce i pronomi personali soggetto
eş: essa
köken: Inherited from Latin illaei. The formal address Lei appears in the 16th century in connection with Signoria (“Lordship”), Eccellenza (“Excellency”), Santità (“Holiness”) and Magnificenza, alongside Voi.
1320, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Amadeo Augusto Lange (1788), page 161
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Compound of 貴 (ki-, honorific prefix) + 様 (sama, honorific suffix). First cited to a Japanese-Portuguese dictionary of the early 1600s, and likely existent some time earlier. Originally used as a term of honor and respect in the correspondence of samurai households, used to refer to social superiors. Later became a more colloquial term, and by the late Edo period, it was used to refer to social…