anticrepuscolo
Italian
Etymology
From anti- + crepuscolo (“twilight, dusk”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /an.ti.kreˈpu.sko.lo/
- Rhymes: -uskolo
- Hyphenation: an‧ti‧cre‧pù‧sco‧lo
Noun
anticrepuscolo m (uncountable)
- an optical phenomenon, sometimes occurring at dusk, consisting in coloured/colored stripes running parallel to the horizon
Further reading
- anticrepuscolo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana