vitto
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Latin vīctus (“lifestyle; nourishment”), from vīvō (“I live; I survive”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vitto m (plural vitti)
- (obsolete) nourishment
- Synonym: nutrimento
- 1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 20”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 26; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:
- […] la gente estrana, / ch’or d’Africa portava, ora d’Egitto / cose diverse e necessarie al vitto.
- Foreigners, who brought—sometimes from Africa, sometimes from Egypt—various things needed for nourishment.
- food(s) used for daily nutrition; meals
- Synonym: cibo
- board (regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging)
- vitto e alloggio
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Further reading edit
- vitto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana