vetro

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vitrum, from Proto-Italic *wedrom, from Proto-Indo-European *wedro- (“water-like”), derived from the root *wed- (“water”). Cognate with French verre, Portuguese vidro, Spanish vidrio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈve.tro/
• Rhymes: -etro
• Hyphenation: vé‧tro

• Audio:

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Noun

vetro m (plural vetri)

1. glass (transparent material)
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIV”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], lines 10–12; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Già era, e con paura il metto in metro,
     là dove l'ombre tutte eran coperte,
     e trasparien come festuca in vetro.

     Now was I, and with fear in verse I put it, there where the shades were wholly covered up, and glimmered through like unto straws in glass.

2. object made of glass
3. pane of glass
4. glass fragment

Derived terms

• sottovetro
• vetrata
• vetrato
• vetreria
• vetrina
• vetrino
• vetrocamera
• vetrocemento
• vetroceramica
• vetrocromia
• vetroflex
• vetroresina

 

Related terms

• invetriare
• vetraio
• vetrario
• vetrificare
• vetriola
• vetriolo
• vetrofania
• vetroso
• vitreo

 

See also

• cristallo

Anagrams

• torve, trevo, verto