calepino

Italian

FWOTD – 12 December 2022

Etymology

Named after Ambrogio Calepino (c. 1440–1510), the author of a popular 16th-century Latin dictionary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.leˈpi.no/
• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: ca‧le‧pì‧no

Noun

calepino m (plural calepini)

1. 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 […]

2. weighty work of scholarship
3. notebook

Anagrams

• pencolai

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian calepino.

Noun

calepino m (plural calepinos)

1. a Latin dictionary or vocabulary
2. (by extension) any large dictionary or vocabulary

Further reading

• “calepino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10