mazzafrusto
Italian
FWOTD – 6 March 2022
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Un mazzafrusto.
Etymology
From mazza (“club, mace”) + frusto (“whip”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmat.t͡saˈfru.sto/[1]
- Rhymes: -usto
- Hyphenation: maz‧za‧frù‧sto
Noun
mazzafrusto m (plural mazzafrusti)
- (weaponry) flail, chain mace
- early 16th century, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 30”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 11:
- Orlando urta il cavallo e batte e stringe, ¶ e con un mazzafrusto all’acqua spinge.
- Orlando spurs and prods and impels the horse ¶ and with a flail drives it to the water.
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See also
- mazza chiodata
- mazza ferrata
References
- mazzafrusto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication