dipintore
Italian
Etymology
From the past participle stem dipint- of dipingere (“to paint”) + -tore (“-er”, agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.pinˈto.re/
- Rhymes: -ore
- Hyphenation: di‧pin‧tó‧re
Noun
dipintore m (plural dipintori, feminine dipintrice) (archaic)
- painter (male)
- Synonym: pittore
- 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata ottava – Novella terza”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron, Bari: Laterza, 1927:
- Nella nostra cittá, la qual sempre di varie maniere e di nuove genti è stata abbondevole, fu […] un dipintore chiamato Calandrino […].
- In our city, which with odd humours/humors and queer folk has always been abounding, there dwelt […] a painter named Calandrino.
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