zeppa
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Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Lombardic *zippa, a late borrowing from Latin cippus or alteration of the earlier West Germanic *kippa. Compare dialectal German Kipfe (“axe, stave”), English chip, Dutch kip (“plow-beam”).
Noun
[edit]zeppa f (plural zeppe)
- a wedge-shaped piece of wood
- 1996, Gennaro Tampone, Il restauro delle strutture di legno, Hoepli, →ISBN, page 180:
- La zeppa che irrigidisce il nodo è probabilmente successiva.
- The wedge that strengthens the vertex is probably of a later date.
- in printing, a small piece of lead used as a spacer or a brief article inserted to fill a page
- a type of word-game
- a platform shoe
- 2013, Rachelle Bernstein, Le donne dalla caviglia in giù. Storia delle scarpe e delle donne che le hanno indossate, tr. by Ilaria Katerinov, Mondadori (publ.).
- Nonostante i dubbi della nobildonna, Salvatore riuscì a convincerla a indossarne un paio, una domenica mattina a messa, e con grande sorpresa della signora le zeppe si riverlarono comodissime.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2013, Rachelle Bernstein, Le donne dalla caviglia in giù. Storia delle scarpe e delle donne che le hanno indossate, tr. by Ilaria Katerinov, Mondadori (publ.).
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]zeppa f sg
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]zeppa
- inflection of zeppare:
References
[edit]- ^ zeppa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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- Italian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/eppa
- Rhymes:Italian/eppa/2 syllables
- Italian terms borrowed from Lombardic
- Italian terms derived from Lombardic
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian terms with quotations
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- it:Printing
- it:Games
- it:Footwear