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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bokˈka.le/
- Rhymes: -ale
- Hyphenation: boc‧cà‧le
Etymology 1
bocca (“mouth”) + -ale (“-al”, relational adjective suffix)
Adjective
boccale (plural boccali)
- oral, mouth (attributive)
Etymology 2
From a crossing of bocca (“mouth”) with Late Latin baucālis, from Koine Greek βαύκαλις (baúkalis, “container used for the cooling of wine”); probably of Berber[1] or Egyptian origin.[2]
Noun
boccale m (plural boccali)
- a serving vessel:
- jug
- stein
- a quantity of liquid held by such a vessel:
- jugful
- steinful
- (historical) a unit of measure for volume used in Italy, with different values according to the area
- (northern Italy) urinal
Descendants
References
- boccale1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- boccale2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ^ Varia Africana. (1918). United States: African Department of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, p. 303
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN