alambicco
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French alambic, from Medieval Latin alembicus, from Arabic إِنْبِيق (ʔinbīq, “still”), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix, “cup, cap of a still”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:it-pronunciation at line 350: With more than two vowels and an unrecognized suffix, stress must be explicitly given: alambicco
- Rhymes: -ikko
Noun
alambicco m (plural alambicchi)
- (obsolete) alembic
- still (distillation apparatus)
- Synonym: distillatore
Further reading
- alambicco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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