Una Furtiva "Lagrima" not "Lacrima"?

[razzking]

Here's something I've noticed over about 50 years. The aria Nemorino sings in L'elisire d'amore is always rendered as "Una Furtiva Lagrima"

I noticed that "lagrima" is the Spanish spelling & pronunciation. The Italian word for "tear" is "lacrima." Why is this? I know languages change subtly all the time. Was there a consonant shift in Italian in the early to mid 19th century that accounts for the difference in spelling?

A super-duper boring question perhaps

[Chiara Giannini]

Here's something I've noticed over about 50 years. The aria Nemorino sings in L'elisire d'amore is always rendered as "Una Furtiva Lagrima"
I noticed that "lagrima" is the Spanish spelling & pronunciation. The Italian word for "tear" is "lacrima." Why is this? I know languages change subtly all the time. Was there a consonant shift in Italian in the early to mid 19th century that accounts for the difference in spelling?
A super-duper boring question perhaps

I was wondering the same thing. I wonder why that is.

[Axel Reichert]

Post by Chiara Giannini

Post by razzking
Here's something I've noticed over about 50 years. The aria Nemorino
sings in L'elisire d'amore is always rendered as "Una Furtiva
Lagrima"
I noticed that "lagrima" is the Spanish spelling &
pronunciation. The Italian word for "tear" is "lacrima." Why is
this? I know languages change subtly all the time. Was there a
consonant shift in Italian in the early to mid 19th century that
accounts for the difference in spelling?
A super-duper boring question perhaps

I was wondering the same thing. I wonder why that is.

https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/lacrima#Varianti

and

https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/lagrima

mention "lagrima" as "antico".

Best regards

Axel