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Italian
Etymology
From collo (“neck”) + torto (“bent, twisted, crooked”), in sense 1 associating religious people to excessively bowing and looking downwards. Compare Catalan colltort.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɔl.loˈtɔr.to/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɔrto
- Hyphenation: col‧lo‧tòr‧to
Noun
collotorto m (plural collitorti)
- (derogatory) a religious hypocrite, a bigot
- Synonyms: bacchettone m, bacchettona f, baciapile m or f, bigotto m, bigotta f
- a wryneck (bird of genus Jynx)
- Synonyms: torcicollo m, verticollo m
References
- ^ collotorto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication