terrazzo

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See also: terrazzò

English

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Etymology

From Italian terrazzo.

Noun

terrazzo (countable and uncountable, plural terrazzos)

  1. (architecture) A faux-marble material used for flooring and countertops.
    • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 265:
      A fibreglass fish should have been spewing water into a terrazzo fountain, but the pipes had not yet been connected and bags of cement were heaped in the basin.
    • 2007 January 4, Fred A. Bernstein, “Art Above and Below, With Life in the Middle”, in New York Times‎:
      Richard Sammons […] began by leaving the ground floor studio pretty much as he found it, with 15-foot ceilings and a black terrazzo floor.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /terˈrat.t͡so/
  • Rhymes: -attso
  • Hyphenation: ter‧ràz‧zo

Etymology 1

From terra, or from Vulgar Latin *terraceus, from Latin terra. Related to terrazza. Cf. also terraccio, terracia. Compare Spanish terrazo.

Noun

terrazzo m (plural terrazzi)

  1. balcony
  2. terrace
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Descendants
  • → Catalan: terratzo
  • → English: terrazo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

terrazzo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of terrazzare
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