oppido

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oppidum (town).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔp.pi.do/
  • Rhymes: -ɔppido
  • Hyphenation: òp‧pi‧do

Noun

oppido m (plural oppidi)

  1. (rare, historical, Ancient Rome) a fortified settlement

Further reading

  • oppido in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Adverb

oppidō (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial in classical texts) very, greatly, much

Noun

oppidō

  1. dative/ablative singular of oppidum

References

  • oppido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • oppido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • oppido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to make a sally, sortie from the town: eruptionem facere ex oppido
    • (ambiguous) to make a sally, sortie from the town: crebras ex oppido excursiones facere (B. G. 2. 30)
  • oppido in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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