palazzo
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian palazzo, from Latin palātium (“palace, large residence”), from Palātium (“Palatine”), one of the seven hills of Rome, where aristocrats built large homes. Doublet of palace and Pfalz.
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editNoun
editpalazzo (plural palazzos or palazzi)
- A large, palatial urban building in Italy.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 270–271:
- Cecil Spenser's society—who soon shewed he could understand and enter into his views—became a source of great gratification, and his young countryman was almost domesticated at the palazzo.
- 1990 May 20, Betty Martin, “A Couple of Ways of Viewing 'the Eternal City'”, in Los Angeles Times[1], archived from the original on 30 June 2013:
- At the piazzas, Romans are usually surrounded by tourists attracted by the classical palazzos, churches, monuments and fountains.
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editEtymology
editFrom Latin palātium (“palace, large residence”), from Palātium (“Palatine”), one of the seven hills of Rome. Cognate to English palace, French palais, Spanish palacio, Portuguese paço, palácio, see more at palātium.
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editNoun
editpalazzo m (plural palazzi)
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editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Italian palazzo, from Latin palātium (“palace, large residence”), from Palātium (“Palatine”), one of the seven hills of Rome. Doublet of palacio and pazo.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpalazzo m (plural palazzos)
- palazzo (palatial urban building in Italy)
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editAccording to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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