arpento

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Italian

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Etymology

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From French, from Late Latin arepennis (surface of a field), from Gaulish *are-penno- (end, extremity of a field); the first element is from Proto-Celtic *(p)ari-, *are, from Proto-Indo-European *per-; the second element, *penis (head, tip) is of uncertain origin, but probably related to *kʷennom (head).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /arˈpɛn.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnto
  • Hyphenation: ar‧pèn‧to

Noun

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arpento m (plural arpenti)

  1. arpent

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “fare-kwenno”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 123

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