arpento

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Italian

Etymology

From French, from Late Latin arepennis (“surface of a field”), from Gaulish *are-penno- (“end, extremity of a field”); the first element is from Proto-Celtic *(p)ari-, *are, from Proto-Indo-European *per-; the second element, *penis (“head, tip”) is of uncertain origin, but probably related to *kʷennom (“head”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /arˈpɛn.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnto
  • Hyphenation: ar‧pèn‧to

Noun

arpento m (plural arpenti)

  1. arpent

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “fare-kwenno”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 123

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