rocchetto
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rokˈket.to/
Etymology 1
rocca (“distaff”) + -etto[1]
Noun
rocchetto m (plural rocchetti)
- spool (of thread, or of a fishing rod)
- Synonyms: spoletta, bobina
- (film) reel
- (electrical engineering) coil
- (weaving) shuttle (part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads)
Related terms
- rocchetta
Etymology 2
From Medieval Latin roccus.[2]
Noun
rocchetto m (plural rocchetti)
- (clothing, Roman Catholicism) rochet (garment worn over the choir cassock by cardinals, bishops and certain other dignitaries)
- Synonym: roccetto
Further reading
rocchetto (filo) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it rocchetto (cattolicesimo) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
References
- rocchetto2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- rocchetto1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana