vitto
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Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Latin vīctus (“lifestyle; nourishment”), from vīvō (“I live; I survive”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vitto m (plural vitti)
- (obsolete) nourishment
- Synonym: nutrimento
- 1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 20”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 26; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:
- […] la gente estrana, / ch’or d’Africa portava, ora d’Egitto / cose diverse e necessarie al vitto.
- Foreigners, who brought—sometimes from Africa, sometimes from Egypt—various things needed for nourishment.
- food(s) used for daily nutrition; meals
- Synonym: cibo
- board (regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging)
- vitto e alloggio ― board and lodging
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- vitto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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