Noun: sasso
Gender: m
Hyphenation: sàs‧so
| Singular m | sasso |
| Plural m | sassi |
Sample Sentences
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le memorie se facevano con scoiture in sassi e pataffii, […] [e] queste sassa fonnavano in quelle locora dove le cose fatte erano, in segno de perpetua memoria. (memoirs were made through incisions on rocks, and epitaphs, […] and these rocks were placed in those locations where things had taken place, as a sign of perpetual remembrance.) [1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:]
Etymology
From Classical Latin saxum, from Proto-Italic *saksom, of unknown origin. Compare Portuguese seixo (“pebble”) and Spanish saxo (“stone”). See: Portuguese Nouns '
seixo', Spanish Nouns '
saxo'.
Verbs referencing "sasso"
Galician Nouns
seixo, Portuguese Nouns
seixo, Spanish Nouns
saxo.
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