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gibetto

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old French gibet, probably from Frankish *gibb (forked stick).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒiˈbet.to/
  • Rhymes: -etto
  • Hyphenation: gi‧bét‧to

Noun

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gibetto m (plural gibetti)

  1. (obsolete) gallows, gibbet
    Synonyms: forca, patibolo
    • 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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