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Italian
Etymology
From Latin armentum (“herd of cattle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /arˈmen.to/
- Rhymes: -ento
- Hyphenation: ar‧mén‧to
Noun
armento m (plural armenti)
- herd, usually of cattle
- Synonyms: mandria, branco
c. 1831, Giacomo Leopardi, Il passero solitario:Odi greggi belar, muggire armenti; ¶ Gli altri augelli contenti, a gara insieme ¶ Per lo libero ciel fan mille giri, […]- You hear flocks bleating, herds lowing; the other birds happily, racing each other make a thousand circles in the free sky.
- (by extension, uncommon) livestock
- Synonym: bestiame
- (by extension, poetic) school (of fish)
- Synonym: banco
Derived terms
Further reading
- armento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
armentō
- dative/ablative singular of armentum
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin armentum (“herd of cattle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
armento m (plural armentos)
- (collective) herd