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vitto
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Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Classical Latin vīctus (“lifestyle; nourishment”), from vīvō (“I live; I survive”).
Noun
vitto m (plural vitti)
- (archaic) nourishment
- Synonym: nutrimento
- 1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 20”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 26; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:
- […] la gente estrana, / ch’or d’Africa portava, ora d’Egitto / cose diverse e necessarie al vitto.
- Foreigners, who brought—sometimes from Africa, sometimes from Egypt—various things needed for nourishment.
- food(s) used for daily nutrition; meals
- Synonym: cibo
- board (regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging)
- vitto e alloggio ― board and lodging
Derived terms
Further reading
Etymology 2
From Latin victus, perfect passive participle of vincō (“conquer”).
Participle
vitto (feminine vitta, masculine plural vitti, feminine plural vitte)
- (archaic) past participle of vincere
Further reading
- vitto_2 in internazionale.it – Dizionario Italiano di Internazionale – Il Nuovo di Mauro
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