oppido

oppido

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oppidum (“town”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔp.pi.do/
• Rhymes: -ɔppido
• Hyphenation: òp‧pi‧do

Noun

oppido m (plural oppidi)

1. (rare, historical, Ancient Rome) a fortified settlement

Further reading

• oppido in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• doppio, doppiò

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Latin

Adverb

oppidō (not comparable)

1. (colloquial in classical texts) very, greatly, much

Noun

oppidō

1. dative/ablative singular of oppidum

References

• “oppido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oppido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oppido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to make a sally, sortie from the town: eruptionem facere ex oppido
    
  • (ambiguous) to make a sally, sortie from the town: crebras ex oppido excursiones facere (B. G. 2. 30)
    
• oppido in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016