scoitura

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Classical Latin sculptūra (“act of carving; sculpture”), derived from sculpō (“I carve”) +‎ -tūra (“-ing, -ure”, action noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skojˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: scoi‧tù‧ra

Noun

scoitura f (plural scoiture)

1. (regional) Obsolete form of scultura.
   1. incision, engraving
      • 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

        ’Nanti lo tiempo de questo non era lettera. Donne, quanno faceva bisuogno de fare alcuna cosa memorabile, scrivere non se poteva. Donne le memorie se facevano con scoiture in sassi e pataffii

        Before his time, there were no letters. Therefore, when there was need to record something, one could not write. Thus, accounts were made through incisions on rocks and gravestones

        (literally, “Before the time of this one [Cadmus], no letter was. Therefore, when it made need to make something memorable, one could not write. Therefore, memories were made with incisions in rocks and gravestones”)

Related terms

• scultore
• scultoreo
• sculturale

 

Further reading

• scoitura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “scoitura”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 18, page 335