calepino
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after Ambrogio Calepino (c. 1440–1510), the author of a popular 16th-century Latin dictionary.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
calepino m (plural calepini)
- large vocabulary (especially of Latin)
- 1891, Giovanni Pascoli, Myricae, L'ultima passeggiata/O vano sogno:
- Quando nella macchia fiorisce il pan porcino, ¶ lo scolaro i suoi divi ozi lasciando ¶ spolvera il badïale calepino […]
- When a sowbread flowers in the scrub, ¶ the schoolboy leaving his divine leisure ¶ dusts off his large vocabulary […]
- weighty work of scholarship
- notebook
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian calepino.
Noun[edit]
calepino m (plural calepinos)
- a Latin dictionary or vocabulary
- (by extension) any large dictionary or vocabulary
Further reading[edit]
- “calepino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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