ingombro
See also: ingombrò
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈɡom.bro/
- Rhymes: -ombro
- Hyphenation: in‧góm‧bro
Etymology 1
Deverbal from ingombrare + -o.[1]
Or formed directly from the prefix in- with an uncertain stem (compare English cumber), either:
- the Old French combre (“wooden obstacles on a river; dam”), combrer (“to hinder”); see modern French encombrer;[2][3][4]
- directly from the Latin cumulus (“an accumulation, a heap”), compare Portuguese combro.[6]
Noun
ingombro m (plural ingombri)
- encumbrance, obstruction, obstacle
- bulk, mass
- Synonym: volume
Adjective
ingombro (feminine ingombra, masculine plural ingombri, feminine plural ingombre)
Etymology 2
Verb
ingombro
- first-person singular present indicative of ingombrare
References
- ^ ingombro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Centre national de ressources textuelles
- ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “combrus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 204
- ^ “encombrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ ingombrare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “ingombro”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati