fiaccola
Italian
Etymology
Diminutive of an unattested Old Italian *fiacca, from an older *facchia (with metathesis of /j/), from Latin facula, itself a diminutive of Latin fax (“torch”). Effectively a doublet of facola, which was borrowed from Latin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfjak.ko.la/
- Rhymes: -akkola
- Hyphenation: fiàc‧co‧la
Noun
fiaccola f (plural fiaccole)
- torch (flaming sort)
Derived terms
- fiaccola olimpica
- fiaccola nuziale
- fiaccolata
Descendants
- → Maltese: fjakkla
Further reading
- fiaccola in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana