Noun: pappagallo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: pap‧pa‧gàl‧lo
| Singular m | pappagallo |
| Plural m | pappagalli |
Sample Sentences
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fare il pappagallo (play the parrot)
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ripetere tutto come un pappagallo (repeat everything like a parrot)
Nouns inflected like pappagallo
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 Byzantine Greek παπαγᾶς (papagâs), from Arabic بَبَغَاء (babaḡāʔ), of onomatopoeic origin. Influenced by gallo (“rooster”). Cognate with German Papagei, Sicilian pappagaḍḍu-pappajaḍḍu, Spanish papagayo, and English popinjay. See: German Nouns '
Papagei', Spanish Nouns '
papagayo', English Nouns '
popinjay'.
Verbs referencing "pappagallo"
Romanian Nouns
papagal, Greek Nouns
παπαγάλος.
Translations