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Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *clavĭca, from Late Latin clavăca, clovăca, for Latin cloāca. Doublet of cloaca, a borrowing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkja.vi.ka/
- Rhymes: -avika
- Hyphenation: chià‧vi‧ca
Noun
chiavica f (plural chiaviche, diminutive chiavichétta or chiavichìna, augmentative chiavicóne m, pejorative chiavicàccia)
- sewer
- Synonyms: fogna f, cloaca f
- sluice gate
- (figurative) pigsty, pigpen, a filthy and untidy place
- Synonyms: fogna f, cloaca f, immondezzaio m, letamaio m, porcile m, stalla f
- (figurative, derogatory, southern Italy) ugly person
- Synonyms: cesso m, mostro m
Further reading
- chiavica in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- chiavica in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- chiavica in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- chiàvica in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- chiàvica in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana