Category:Italian metonyms

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Newest and oldest pages 
Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. fianco
  2. poker
  3. ambra
  4. ingegno
  5. spogliatoio
  6. pariglia
  7. testata
  8. mannaia
  9. facchino
  10. collottola
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. Nobel
  2. spogliatoio
  3. Quirinale
  4. pariglia
  5. Campidoglio
  6. Palazzo Chigi
  7. Palazzo Farnese
  8. Palazzo Senatorio
  9. Palazzo Madama
  10. Palazzo della Consulta

Italian terms whose origin involves calling a thing or concept not by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.