Noun: bidello
Gender: m
Hyphenation: bi‧dèl‧lo
| Singular m | bidello |
| Singular f | bidella |
| Plural m | bidelli |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like bidello
nipotino,
monferrino,
tiburtino,
evacuato,
angloamericano,
setino,
cristiano,
saputo,
favorito,
sciabordito,
somaro,
somalo,
ostrogoto,
sicano,
ugonotto,
ragazzino,
proscritto,
comacino,
nordafricano,
nizzardo, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French bedel (“policeman”), from Frankish *bidil (“candidate, volunteer”), from Proto-Germanic *bidilaz (“seeker”), from Proto-Germanic *bidjaną (“to ask, beseech”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ- (“to command”), merging with Frankish *budil (“messenger of justice”), from Proto-Germanic *budilaz (“herald”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to present, offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to comprehend, make aware”). Akin to Old High German bitil (“candidate”), Old High German bittan (“to ask”), Old High German butil (“beadle”) (whence German Büttel), Old English bydel (“apparitor, messenger, beadle”), Old English bēodan (“to announce”). More at beadle, bid. See: German Nouns '
Büttel', Old English Nouns '
bydel', Old English Nouns '
bēodan'.
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