stabbio

See also: stabbiò

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈstab.bjo/
  • Rhymes: -abbjo
  • Hyphenation: stàb‧bio

Etymology 1

From Latin stab(u)lum.

Noun

stabbio m (plural stabbi)

  1. pen, fold, run (for animals)
    • 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno – Verso nona”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 77:
      Davanti agli stabbi i porcai rimestavano in una gran giara il sangue dei porci appena sgozzati, affinché non si coagulasse.
      In front of the pens the swineherds stirred the slaughtered pigs' blood in a large jar to not make it coagulate.
  2. pigsty
  3. manure
See also

Verb

stabbio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of stabbiare
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