vecchierello
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From vecchio (“old man”) + -erello (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vecchierello m (plural vecchierelli, feminine vecchierella)
- diminutive of vecchio
- Synonym: vecchietto
- Antonym: giovincello
- 1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “XVI — Movesi il vecchierel canuto et biancho”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 1–2; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:
- Movesi il vecchierel canuto et biancho / del dolce loco ov’à sua età fornita
- The little gray-haired old man from the sweet place where he spent his life
Categories:
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wet-
- Italian terms suffixed with -erello
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛllo
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛllo/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
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