libeccio
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian libeccio.
Noun
libeccio (plural libecci or libeccios)
- A southwest wind.
Translations
southwest wind
Further reading
- libeccio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “libeccio” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.
French
Noun
libeccio m (plural libeccios)
- synonym of labech
Further reading
- “libeccio”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
From a corresponding dialectal wind-name, Arabic رِيح لَبَاج / لَبَاش (rīḥ labāj / labāš), from Ancient Greek λίψ (líps).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liˈbet.t͡ʃo/
- Rhymes: -ettʃo
- Hyphenation: li‧béc‧cio
Noun
libeccio m (plural libecci)
Descendants
- → Catalan: llebeig
Further reading
- libeccio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana