sasso

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Istriot[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Latin saxum. Compare Italian sasso.

Noun[edit]

sasso m (plural sassi)

  1. stone, rock

Italian[edit]

Sassi

Etymology[edit]

From Classical Latin saxum, from Proto-Italic *saksom, of unknown origin. Compare Portuguese seixo (pebble) and Spanish saxo (stone).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈsas.so/
  • Rhymes: -asso
  • Hyphenation: sàs‧so
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

sasso m (plural sassi or (obsolete) sassa f)

  1. (geology) stone, rock
    Synonym: pietra
  2. (by extension) stone, rock, boulder, pebble
    Synonyms: ciottolo, masso, pietra, roccia
    • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:
      le memorie se facevano con scoiture in sassi e pataffii, [] [e] queste sassa fonnavano in quelle locora dove le cose fatte erano, in segno de perpetua memoria.
      memoirs were made through incisions on rocks, and epitaphs, [] and these rocks were placed in those locations where things had taken place, as a sign of perpetual remembrance.

Derived terms[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

sasso

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さっそ