gallicinio
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gallicinium.
Pronunciation
Noun
gallicinio m (plural gallicini) (literary)
- The crowing of the rooster.
- The period of the early morning when roosters begin to crow.
- 1876, Carlo Maria Curci, Lezioni esegetiche e morali sopra i quattro evangeli - Volume V [Exegetical and moral lessons on the four Gospels - Volume 5][1], Luigi Manuelli, page 178:
- A determinare il tempo del gallicinio, secondo che dagli antichi stessi si faceva, i cenni che se ne hanno da Macrobio non basterebbero, e forse neppure i più copiosi che se ne leggono in Censorino
- To determine the time of the gallicinio, as understood in ancient times, the mentions of Macrobius wouldn't suffice, and neither would the more numerous ones found in Censorinus
- (Ancient Rome) The period of the night following midnight and preceding the first light of dawn.
Related terms
References
- gallicinio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) galliciniō n
Categories:
- Italian terms borrowed from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/injo
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian literary terms
- Italian terms with quotations
- it:Ancient Rome
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin noun forms