cuneo

See also: Cuneo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cuneus, whence also Italian conio (an inherited doublet).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.ne.o/
  • Rhymes: -uneo
  • Hyphenation: cù‧ne‧o

Noun

cuneo m (plural cunei)

  1. wedge

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From cuneus (wedge) +‎ .

Pronunciation

Verb

cuneō (present infinitive cuneāre, perfect active cuneāvī, supine cuneātum); first conjugation

  1. to wedge in, secure by wedging, force in like a wedge

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old French:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Old Italian:
  • Old Spanish:
  • Sicilian: cugnari
  • Vulgar Latin: *incuneō, *incuneāre
    • Eastern Romance:
    • Old Occitan:
    • Sicilian: ncugnari
    • Albanian: ngujoj (possibly)

References

  • cuneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cuneo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

cuneo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cunear