stivale
Italian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old FrenchCategory:Italian terms borrowed from Old French#STIVALECategory:Italian terms derived from Old French#STIVALE estival, of which the etymology is disputedCategory:Italian terms with unknown etymologies#STIVALE: either from Medieval LatinCategory:Italian terms derived from Medieval Latin#STIVALE aestivālis (“summerly”), in place of Classical LatinCategory:Italian terms derived from Classical Latin#STIVALE aestīvus (whence also Italian estivo), from aestās (“summer”), or from tībiālis (“tibial, of the tibia”), from tībia. Cognate with Sicilian stivala.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stiˈva.le/[1][2]Category:Italian 3-syllable words#STIVALECategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#STIVALE
Category:Italian terms with audio pronunciation#STIVALEAudio: (file) - Homophone: StivaleCategory:Italian terms with homophones#STIVALE
- Rhymes: -aleCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ale#STIVALECategory:Rhymes:Italian/ale/3 syllables#STIVALE
- Hyphenation: sti‧và‧le
Noun
stivale m (plural stivali)Category:Italian lemmas#STIVALECategory:Italian nouns#STIVALECategory:Italian countable nouns#STIVALECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#STIVALECategory:Italian masculine nouns#STIVALECategory:Pages with entries#STIVALECategory:Pages with 1 entry#STIVALE
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From stiva + -leCategory:Italian terms suffixed with -le#STIVALE.
Pronunciation
Verb
stivaleCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#STIVALECategory:Italian verb forms#STIVALECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#STIVALECategory:Pages with entries#STIVALECategory:Pages with 1 entry#STIVALE
- compound of stiva, the second-person singular imperative form of stivare, with leCategory:Italian combined forms#STIVALE
References
- 1 2 stivale in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- ↑ stivale in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025
