vitellone
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From vitello (“calf”) + -one (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vitellone m (plural vitelloni, feminine vitellona)
- Augmentative of vitello
- bullock
- beef (from a young animal)
- loafer (idle person)
Further reading
[edit]- vitellone in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- vitellone in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- vitellone in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- vitellóne in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- vitellóne in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Categories:
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wet-
- Italian terms suffixed with -one (augmentative)
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/one
- Rhymes:Italian/one/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian augmentative nouns
- it:Baby animals
- it:Cattle
- it:Male animals
- it:Meats
- it:People