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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin parafernālis, paraphernālis, derived from Latin parapherna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.ra.ferˈna.le/
- Rhymes: -ale
- Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧fer‧nà‧le
Adjective
parafernale (plural parafernali)
- (law) paraphernal
Noun
parafernale m (plural parafernali)
- (rare, in the plural) tool, implement; paraphernal, a miscellaneous object
- Synonyms: attrezzo, strumento
1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 51:[E]rano dunque quattro figure di vegliardi, dai cui parafernali riconobbi Pietro e Paolo, Geremia e Isaia- hey were four pictures of old men, from whose paraphernals I recognized Peter and Paul, Jeremiah and Isaiah