coppo
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Akin to coppa (“cup”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
coppo m (plural coppi)
- jug, pitcher
- Synonym: orcio
- (historical, unit of measure) an ancient unit of volume
- a type of curved roof tile
- Synonym: tegola
- (fishing) Synonym of negossa
- (archaic) cavity
- the cavity of the eye
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIII”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 97–99; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- […] le lagrime prime fanno groppo,
e sì come visiere di cristallo,
rïempion sotto ’l ciglio tutto il coppo.- The earliest tears form a cluster, and, like crystal visors, fill all the cup beneath the eyebrow.
- the concave part of a helm
Further reading edit
- coppo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
coppo
References edit
- ^ coppo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- ^ coppa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)