lesso
See also: lessò
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈles.so/
- Rhymes: -esso
- Hyphenation: lés‧so
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin ēlixus (“boiled, soaked”). Compare the regular thematic counterpart lessato, from lessare (“to boil”).[1] Bentley analyses/analyzes the former as agentless and derived from a change-of-state root, and the latter as agentive and derived from a verbal base. [2]
Adjective
lesso (feminine lessa, masculine plural lessi, feminine plural lesse)
- boiled
Related terms
- lessare
Noun
lesso m (plural lessi)
- boiled meat
- boiling meat
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
lesso
- first-person singular present indicative of lessare
References
- Adam Ledgeway (2016-06-30), Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden, editor, Italian, Tuscan, and Corsican, Oxford University Press, DOI:, →ISBN, page 221
- Delia Bentley (2018-11), “Monotonicity In Word Formation: The Case Of Italo-Romance Result State Adjectives”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 116, issue 3, DOI:, page 285–319
Anagrams
- solse