vetro

From Latin vitrum, from Proto-Italic *wedrom, from Proto-Indo-European *wedro- (“water-like”), derived from the root *wed- (“water”). Cognate with French verre, Portuguese vidro, Spanish vidrio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈve.tro/
• Rhymes: -etro
• Hyphenation: vé‧tro

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vetro m (plural vetri)

1. glass (transparent material)
   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIV”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 10–12; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Già era, e con paura il metto in metro,
     là dove l'ombre tutte eran coperte,
     e trasparien come festuca in vetro.

     Now was I, and with fear in verse I put it, there where the shades were wholly covered up, and glimmered through like unto straws in glass.

2. object made of glass
3. pane of glass
4. glass fragment

• cristallo

• torve, trevo, verto