imbatto
See also: imbattò
Italian
editEtymology 1
editFrom imbattersi. The nautical sense is widespread in the Meditteranean, with cognates in the Romance languages and borrowings to the East: Portuguese and Spanish embate; Old Catalan, Catalan, and Franco-Provençal embat; Greek εμπάτες (empátes); Turkish imbat.
Noun
editimbatto m (plural imbatti)
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editimbatto
Further reading
edit- Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 341
- imbatto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana