vetro
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin vitrum, from Proto-Italic *wedrom, from Proto-Indo-European *wedro- (“water-like”), derived from the root *wed- (“water”). Cognate with French verre, Portuguese vidro, Spanish vidrio.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vetro m (plural vetri)
- glass (transparent material)
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIV”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 10–12; 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:
- Già era, e con paura il metto in metro,
là dove l'ombre tutte eran coperte,
e trasparien come festuca in vetro.- Now was I, and with fear in verse I put it, there where the shades were wholly covered up, and glimmered through like unto straws in glass.
- object made of glass
- pane of glass
- glass fragment