sasso
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Latin saxum. Compare Italian sasso.
Noun
[edit]sasso m (plural sassi)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Classical Latin saxum, from Proto-Italic *saksom, of unknown origin. Compare Portuguese seixo (“pebble”) and Spanish saxo (“stone”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sasso m (plural sassi or (obsolete) sassa f)
- (geology) stone, rock
- Synonym: pietra
- (by extension) stone, rock, boulder, pebble
- 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle][1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:
- le memorie se facevano con scoiture in sassi e pataffii, […] [e] queste sassa fonnavano in quelle locora dove le cose fatte erano, in segno de perpetua memoria.
- memoirs were made through incisions on rocks, and epitaphs, […] and these rocks were placed in those locations where things had taken place, as a sign of perpetual remembrance.
Derived terms
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