gibetto
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French gibet, probably from Frankish *gibb (“forked stick”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gibetto m (plural gibetti)
- (obsolete) gallows, gibbet
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell][1], line 151; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- « […] Io fei gibetto a me delle mie case.»
- “ […] Of my own house I made myself a gibbet.”
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