lesso

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See also: lessò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈles.so/
  • Rhymes: -esso
  • Hyphenation: lés‧so

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin ēlixus (“boiled, soaked”). Compare the regular thematic counterpart lessato, from lessare (“to boil”).[1] Bentley analyses/analyzes the former as agentless and derived from a change-of-state root, and the latter as agentive and derived from a verbal base. [2]

Adjective

lesso (feminine lessa, masculine plural lessi, feminine plural lesse)

  1. boiled

Noun

lesso m (plural lessi)

  1. boiled meat
  2. boiling meat

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lesso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of lessare

References

  1. ^ Adam Ledgeway (2016 June 30) Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden, editor, Italian, Tuscan, and Corsican‎, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 221
  2. ^ Delia Bentley (2018-11) “Monotonicity In Word Formation: The Case Of Italo-Romance Result State Adjectives”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 116, number 3, →DOI, pages 285–319

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