zeppa

Italian

FWOTD – 22 October 2018

Etymology

Borrowed from Lombardic *zippa, a late borrowing from Latin cippus or alteration of the earlier West Germanic *kippa. Compare dialectal German Kipfe (axe, stave), English chip, Dutch kip (plow-beam).

Pronunciation

  • zéppa
  • IPA(key): /ˈtseppa/

Noun

zeppa f (plural zeppe)

  1. a wedge-shaped piece of wood
    • 1996, Gennaro Tampone, Il restauro delle strutture di legno, Hoepli, →ISBN, page 180.
      La zeppa che irrigidisce il nodo è probabilmente successiva.
      The wedge that strengthens the vertex is probably of a later date.
  2. in printing, a small piece of lead used as a spacer or a brief article inserted to fill a page
  3. a type of word-game
  4. a platform shoe
    • 2013, Rachelle Bernstein, Le donne dalla caviglia in giù. Storia delle scarpe e delle donne che le hanno indossate, tr. by Ilaria Katerinov, Mondadori (publ.).
      Nonostante i dubbi della nobildonna, Salvatore riuscì a convincerla a indossarne un paio, una domenica mattina a messa, e con grande sorpresa della signora le zeppe si riverlarono comodissime.

Adjective

zeppa

  1. Feminine singular of adjective zeppo.

Derived terms

Verb

zeppa

  1. third-person singular present indicative of zeppare
  2. second-person singular imperative of zeppare

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