Etymology

Ultimately from LatinCategory:Istriot terms inherited from Latin#SASSOCategory:Istriot terms derived from Latin#SASSO saxum. Compare Italian sasso.

Noun

sasso mCategory:Istriot lemmas#SASSOCategory:Istriot nouns#SASSOCategory:Istriot entries with incorrect language header#SASSOCategory:Istriot masculine nouns#SASSOCategory:Pages with entries#SASSOCategory:Pages with 3 entries#SASSO (plural sassi)

1. stone, rock

Etymology

From Classical LatinCategory:Italian terms inherited from Classical Latin#SASSOCategory:Italian terms derived from Classical Latin#SASSO saxum, from Proto-ItalicCategory:Italian terms inherited from Proto-Italic#SASSOCategory:Italian terms derived from Proto-Italic#SASSO *saksom, of unknown origin. Compare Portuguese seixo (“pebble”) and Spanish saxo (“stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsas.so/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#SASSOCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#SASSO
• Rhymes: -assoCategory:Rhymes:Italian/asso#SASSOCategory:Rhymes:Italian/asso/2 syllables#SASSO
• Hyphenation: sàs‧so

• Audio:

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  Category:Italian terms with audio pronunciation#SASSO

Noun

sasso m (plural sassi or (obsolete) sassa f)Category:Italian lemmas#SASSOCategory:Italian nouns#SASSOCategory:Italian countable nouns#SASSOCategory:Italian nouns with multiple plurals#SASSOCategory:Italian nouns that change gender in the plural#SASSOCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#SASSOCategory:Italian masculine nouns#SASSOCategory:Pages with entries#SASSOCategory:Pages with 3 entries#SASSO

1. (geologyCategory:it:Geology#SASSO) 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.

     Category:Italian terms with quotations#SASSO

Romanization

sassoCategory:Japanese non-lemma forms#SASSOCategory:Japanese romanizations#SASSOCategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes#SASSOCategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#SASSOCategory:Pages with entries#SASSOCategory:Pages with 3 entries#SASSO

1. Rōmaji transcription of さっそ