terrazzo

See also: terrazzò

English

Alternative forms

• terrazo

Etymology

From Italian terrazzo.

Noun

terrazzo (countable and uncountable, plural terrazzos)

1. (architecture) A faux-marble material used for flooring and countertops.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 265:

     A fibreglass fish should have been spewing water into a terrazzo fountain, but the pipes had not yet been connected and bags of cement were heaped in the basin.

   • 2007 January 4, Fred A. Bernstein, “Art Above and Below, With Life in the Middle”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Richard Sammons […] began by leaving the ground floor studio pretty much as he found it, with 15-foot ceilings and a black terrazzo floor.

References

• terrazzo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:terrazzo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /terˈrat.t͡so/
• Rhymes: -attso
• Hyphenation: ter‧ràz‧zo

Etymology 1

From terra, or from Vulgar Latin *terraceus, from Latin terra. Related to terrazza. Cf. also terraccio, terracia. Compare Spanish terrazo.

Noun

terrazzo m (plural terrazzi)

1. balcony
2. terrace

Synonyms

• balcone (1)
• terrazza (1,2)

Derived terms

• terrazzino

Descendants

• → Catalan: terratzo
• → English: terrazo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

terrazzo

1. first-person singular present indicative of terrazzare