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Italian
A changing room, dressing room, locker room
A dressing room adjoining a domestic room
Etymology
From spogliare + -toio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spoʎ.ʎaˈto.jo/, /spoʎ.ʎaˈtɔ.jo/
- Rhymes: -ojo, -ɔjo
- Hyphenation: spo‧glia‧tó‧io, spo‧glia‧tò‧io
Noun
spogliatoio m (plural spogliatoi)
- changing room/locker room, dressing room (a room, especially in a gym, designed for people to change their clothes)
- (metonymically, figurative) team (set of players that make up a sports team)
- (dated) dressing room, walk-in closet/walk-in wardrobe (a small room adjoining a domestic bedroom where people may dress or undress in privacy)
- Synonym: cabina armadio
Further reading
- spogliatoio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- spogliatoio in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- spogliatoio in Dizionario di Italiano online - La Repubblica