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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin signāculum (“seal, signet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seɲˈɲa.ko.lo/
- Rhymes: -akolo
- Hyphenation: se‧gnà‧co‧lo
Noun
segnacolo m (plural segnacoli) (literary)
- (literal and figurative) sign, symbol, emblem
1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXVII, page 485, lines 46, 49–51:Non fu nostra intenzion […] che le chiavi che mi fuor concesse, ¶ divenisser signaculo in vessillo ¶ che contra battezzati combattesse- Our purpose was not that the keys which were to me confided should e'er become the escutcheon on a banner, that should wage war on those who are baptized
- bookmark (strip used to mark a place in a book)
- (by extension, rare) any kind of bookmark or bookmarker
trovai molti passi controsegnati in margine con matita, e una striscia di carta postavi per segnacolo- I found many passages signed in pencil on the margin, and a slip of paper put there as a bookmarker