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Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Classical Latin sculptūra (“act of carving; sculpture”), derived from sculpō (“I carve”) + -tūra (“-ing, -ure”, action noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skojˈtu.ra/
- Rhymes: -ura
- Hyphenation: scoi‧tù‧ra
Noun
scoitura f (plural scoiture)
- (regional) Obsolete form of scultura.
- incision, engraving
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:’Nanti lo tiempo de questo non era lettera. Donne, quanno faceva bisuogno de fare alcuna cosa memorabile, scrivere non se poteva. Donne le memorie se facevano con scoiture in sassi e pataffii- Before his time, there were no letters. Therefore, when there was need to record something, one could not write. Thus, accounts were made through incisions on rocks and gravestones
- (literally, “Before the time of this one , no letter was. Therefore, when it made need to make something memorable, one could not write. Therefore, memories were made with incisions in rocks and gravestones”)
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