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Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin exāmen. Compare the borrowed doublet esame.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): */ˈʃa.me/
- Rhymes: -ame
- Hyphenation: scià‧me
Noun
sciame m (plural sciami)
- swarm
- Synonyms: nugolo, stormo
- uno sciame d'api ― a swarm of bees
Uno sciame di calabroni attaccò i bambini.- A swarm of hornets attacked the children.
- (by extension) crowd
Further reading
- sciame in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- sciame in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
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