sposalizio
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin spōnsālicius.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sposalizio m (plural sposalizi)
- a wedding ceremony
- Synonyms: nozze, matrimonio
Proper noun
[edit]sposalizio ?
- (Venice) the ritual wedding of Venice with the sea in which a ring is dropped into the water by a doge from a bucintoro (properly "lo sposalizio del mare")
Further reading
[edit]- sposalizio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂el- (grow)
- Italian terms derived from Old Latin
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Italian terms derived from Late Latin
- Italian terms borrowed from Late Latin
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ittsjo
- Rhymes:Italian/ittsjo/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
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- Venetian Italian
- it:Family
- it:Marriage