carbonari

See also: Carbonari

English

Etymology

From Italian carbonari, plural of carbonaro.

Noun

carbonari (plural carbonari)

1. member or members of the carboneria secret society
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 136:

     I saw Sir Hudson Lowe standing on the same rug with one of Buonaparte's old generals; one of our Tory members, to whom innovation is the 'word of fear,' who considers anarchy and annihilation as synonymous, shrinking in the doorway from the carbonari atmosphere of General Pepi.

Italian

Noun

carbonari m

1. plural of carbonaro

Anagrams

• barricano, borracina, carborani

Latin

Noun

carbōnārī

1. vocative singular of carbōnārius