sasso

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Etymology

Ultimately from Latin saxum. Compare Italian sasso.

Noun

sasso m (plural sassi)

  1. stone, rock

Italian

Sassi

Etymology

From Classical Latin saxum, from Proto-Italic *saksom, of unknown origin. Compare Portuguese seixo (pebble) and Spanish saxo (stone).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsas.so/
  • Rhymes: -asso
  • Hyphenation: sàs‧so
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Noun

sasso m (plural sassi or (obsolete) sassa f)

  1. (geology) stone, rock
    Synonym: pietra
  2. (by extension) stone, rock, boulder, pebble
    Synonyms: ciottolo, masso, pietra, roccia
    • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎ (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:
      le memorie se facevano con scoiture in sassi e pataffii, [] [e] queste sassa fonnavano in quelle locora dove le cose fatte erano, in segno de perpetua memoria.
      memoirs were made through incisions on rocks, and epitaphs, and these rocks were placed in those locations where things had taken place, as a sign of perpetual remembrance.

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

sasso

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さっそ