caligine

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cālīgō, cālīginis (“fog”).[1] Compare Portuguese caligem (“fog”) and Spanish calina (“haze”).

Noun

caligine f (plural caligini)

  1. soot, smog
  2. fog

Derived terms

References
  1. caligine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

cālīgine

  1. ablative singular of cālīgō
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