vecchierello
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From vecchio (“old man”) + -erello (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vecchierello m (plural vecchierelli, feminine vecchierella)
- Diminutive of vecchio
- Synonym: vecchietto
- Antonym: giovincello
- 1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “XVI — Movesi il vecchierel canuto et biancho”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 1–2; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:
- Movesi il vecchierel canuto et biancho / del dolce loco ov’à sua età fornita
- The little gray-haired old man from the sweet place where he spent his life