Category:Italian compound terms

Italian terms composed of two or more stems.

• Category:Italian bahuvrihi compounds: Italian compounds in which the first part (A) modifies the second (B), and whose meaning follows a metonymic pattern: “<person> having a B that is A.”
• Category:Italian exocentric compounds: Italian terms composed of two or more stems, none of which is the head of that compound.
• Category:Italian verb-object compounds: Italian compounds in which the first element is a transitive verb, the second a term (usually but not always a noun) functioning as its (normally direct) object, and whose referent is the person or thing doing the action, or an adjective describing such a person or thing.
• Category:Italian verb-verb compounds: Italian compounds composed of two or more verbs in apposition, often either synonyms or antonyms, and whose referent refers to the result of performing those actions.