Dio vi dia il buon dì

Italian Etymology may God give you a good day. Interjection it interjection it archaic formal good day it buondì it Il fantasima w:Vincenzo Rota 1748 Lugano Suprema Superiorità Elvetica 11 https://books.google.com/?id=XTX1q9nlaMcC&pg=PA11 Attenti a ciò ch'ei dice, e zitti statevi, // se tutto il resto ben volete intendere; // che il dievidielbuondie, e 'l buon anno i' lasciovi. Pay attention to what he says, and do not speak, // if you want to understand well everything else; // may God give you a good day, and a good year I leave you. Usage notes Attested in various alternative forms according to the byforms of each constituent word, and often preceded by it il or it che il. Due to the greeting belonging to the formal register, compare the following usage: it La bucchereide Lorenzo Bellini 1 1823 1729 Bologna Fratelli Masi 77 https://books.google.com/?id=TcOi9coL-DkC&pg=PA77 Le son ben state tutte signoríe, // Tutte vestite come di velluto, // In gala, e in boria, e in dievidielbuondíe. They were all lords, // All dressed as if it was velvet, // Cerimonially, and swaggeringly, and obsequiously.