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Italian
Etymology
Doublet of macchiato. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.kuˈla.to/
- Rhymes: -ato
- Hyphenation: ma‧cu‧là‧to
Adjective
maculato (feminine maculata, masculine plural maculati, feminine plural maculate)
- (literary or zoology or fashion) spotted
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 31–33; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Ed ecco, quasi al cominciar de l'erta, ¶ una lonza leggera e presta molto, ¶ che di pel macolato era coverta; […]- And lo! almost where the ascent began, a panther light and swift exceedingly, which with a spotted skin was covered o'er!
Further reading
- maculato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Latin
Participle
maculātō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of maculātus