sasso

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin saxum. Compare Italian sasso.

Noun

sasso m (plural sassi)

1. stone, rock

Etymology

From Classical Latin saxum, from Proto-Italic *saksom, of unknown origin. Compare Portuguese seixo (“pebble”) and Spanish saxo (“stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsas.so/
• Rhymes: -asso
• Hyphenation: sàs‧so

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Noun

sasso m (plural sassi or (obsolete) sassa f)

1. (geology) stone, rock

   Synonym: pietra

2. (by extension) stone, rock, boulder, pebble

   Synonyms: ciottolo, masso, pietra, roccia

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

     le memorie se facevano con scoiture in sassi e pataffii, […] [e] queste sassa fonnavano in quelle locora dove le cose fatte erano, in segno de perpetua memoria.

     memoirs were made through incisions on rocks, and epitaphs, […] and these rocks were placed in those locations where things had taken place, as a sign of perpetual remembrance.

Romanization

sasso

1. Rōmaji transcription of さっそ