Italian

Adverb

avaccio (obsolete)

1. soon, early
2. quickly, eagerly
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto X, p. 161 vv. 115-117:

     E già 'l maestro mio mi richiamava; ¶ per ch'i' pregai lo spirto più avaccio ¶ che mi dicesse con chi lu' istava.

     And now my Master was recalling me; ¶ wherefore more eagerly I prayed the spirit ¶ that he would tell me who was with him there.