mazzafrusto
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From mazza (“club, mace”) + frusto (“whip”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mazzafrusto m (plural mazzafrusti)
- (weaponry) flail, chain mace
- 1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 30”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 11; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:
- Orlando urta il cavallo e batte e stringe,
e con un mazzafrusto all’acqua spinge.- Orlando spurs and prods and impels the horse, and drives it towards the water with a flail.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ mazzafrusto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication