chitarrone
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian chitarrone.
Noun[edit]
chitarrone (plural chitarrones)
- Synonym of theorbo
Derived terms[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From chitarra (“guitar”) + -one (augmentative suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chitarrone m (plural chitarroni)
- Augmentative of chitarra: a large guitar
- (derogatory) an untuned guitar
- (music) Synonym of tiorba (“theorbo”)
- (figurative, derogatory) poetaster (unskilled poet)
- (figurative, derogatory) a fat woman
- Hypernym: donna
Further reading[edit]
- chitarrone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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- Rhymes:Italian/one
- Rhymes:Italian/one/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian augmentative nouns
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