Noun: vetro
Gender: m
Hyphenation: vé‧tro
| Singular m | vetro |
| Plural m | vetri |
Sample Sentences
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Già era, e con paura il metto in metro,
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là dove l'ombre tutte eran coperte,
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e trasparien come festuca in vetro. (Now was I, and with fear in verse I put it, there where the shades were wholly covered up, and glimmered through like unto straws in glass.) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIV”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 10–12; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
Nouns inflected like vetro
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin vitrum, from Proto-Italic *wedrom, from Proto-Indo-European *wedro- (“water-like”), derived from the root *wed- (“water”). Cognate with French verre, Portuguese vidro, Spanish vidrio. See: Latin Nouns '
vitrum', French Nouns '
verre', Portuguese Nouns '
vidro', Spanish Nouns '
vidrio'.
Verbs referencing "vetro"
Spanish Nouns
vidrio.
Translations