calepino
Italian
FWOTD – 12 December 2022
Etymology
Named after Ambrogio Calepino (c. 1440–1510), the author of a popular 16th-century Latin dictionary.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.leˈpi.no/
- Rhymes: -ino
- Hyphenation: ca‧le‧pì‧no
Noun
calepino m (plural calepini)
- large vocabulary (especially of Latin)
- 1891, Giovanni Pascoli, Myricae, L'ultima passeggiata/O vano sogno:
- Quando nella macchia fiorisce il pan porcino, ¶ lo scolaro i suoi divi ozi lasciando ¶ spolvera il badïale calepino […]
- When a sowbread flowers in the scrub, ¶ the schoolboy leaving his divine leisure ¶ dusts off his large vocabulary […]
- weighty work of scholarship
- notebook
Anagrams
Spanish
Noun
calepino m (plural calepinos)
- a Latin dictionary or vocabulary
- (by extension) any large dictionary or vocabulary
Further reading
- “calepino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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