bibulo

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See also: bibuło

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin bibulus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbi.bu.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ibulo
  • Hyphenation: bì‧bu‧lo

Adjective

bibulo (feminine bibula, masculine plural bibuli, feminine plural bibule)

  1. (literary) absorbent, bibulous
    • 1711, Lettere e discorsi accademici di Lucantonio Porzio‎, Naples, page 93:
      E delle varie specie di terre […] , dovremo confessare altre essere renose, che bibule, dico io, delle acque
      And, about the various kinds of soils, we have to say that others are sandy, which I define bibulous of water
    • 1868, Giornale dell'ingegnere-architetto civile e meccanico - Anno XVI, Milan, page 544:
      La estensione contemplata nel progetto da assoggettarsi ad irrigazione sarebbe della superficie totale di circa Ett. 68,000, i quali […] possono dividersi in tre classi rispetto alla loro bibacità, collocando nella I classe i terreni riputati più bibuli, nella II i mediamente bibuli, e nella III classe i minimamente bibuli.
      The extension that, according to the project, is to undergo irrigation would cover a total surface of roughly 68,000 ha, which can be divided into three classes according to their bibulousness, placing the most bibulous ones in the 1st class, the averagely bibulous ones in the 2nd class, and the least bibulous ones in the 3rd class.
    • 1956, Atti e memorie dell'Accademia di Agricoltura Scienze e Lettere di Verona‎, page 49:
      In queste morfologie è evidente l'azione solvente di acque acidulate in lenta discesa da soprastanti rilievi calcarei bibuli.
      In such morphologies, the solvent action of acidulated waters, slowly descending from bibulous calcareous elevations above, are evident.
  2. (by extension, rare) bibulous, bibacious, boozy

Derived terms

Further reading

  • bibulo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • bibulo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Latin

Adjective

bibulō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of bibulus
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