calepino

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Italian

FWOTD – 12 December 2022

Etymology

Named after Ambrogio Calepino (c. 1440–1510), the author of a popular 16th-century Latin dictionary.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.leˈpi.no/
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: ca‧le‧pì‧no

Noun

calepino m (plural calepini)

  1. large vocabulary (especially of Latin)
  2. weighty work of scholarship
  3. notebook

Anagrams

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian calepino.

Noun

calepino m (plural calepinos)

  1. a Latin dictionary or vocabulary
  2. (by extension) any large dictionary or vocabulary

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