zeppa

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */ˈd͡zep.pa/, (traditional) */ˈt͡sep.pa/[1]
  • Rhymes: -eppa
  • Hyphenation: zép‧pa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Lombardic *zippa, a late borrowing from Latin cippus or alteration of the earlier West Germanic *kippa. Compare dialectal German Kipfe (axe, stave), English chip, Dutch kip (plow-beam).

Noun

zeppa f (plural zeppe)

  1. a wedge-shaped piece of wood
    • 1996, Gennaro Tampone, Il restauro delle strutture di legno, Hoepli, →ISBN, page 180:
      La zeppa che irrigidisce il nodo è probabilmente successiva.
      The wedge that strengthens the vertex is probably of a later date.
  2. in printing, a small piece of lead used as a spacer or a brief article inserted to fill a page
  3. a type of word-game
  4. a platform shoe
    • 2013, Rachelle Bernstein, Le donne dalla caviglia in giù. Storia delle scarpe e delle donne che le hanno indossate, tr. by Ilaria Katerinov, Mondadori (publ.).
      Nonostante i dubbi della nobildonna, Salvatore riuscì a convincerla a indossarne un paio, una domenica mattina a messa, e con grande sorpresa della signora le zeppe si riverlarono comodissime.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

Adjective

zeppa f sg

  1. feminine singular of zeppo
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

zeppa

  1. inflection of zeppare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  1. ^ zeppa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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