fiaccola

Italian

Etymology

Diminutive of an unattested Old Italian *fiacca, from an older *facchia (with metathesis of /j/), from Latin facula, itself a diminutive of Latin fax (“torch”). Effectively a doublet of facola, which was borrowed from Latin.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfjak.ko.la/
  • Rhymes: -akkola
  • Hyphenation: fiàc‧co‧la

Noun

fiaccola f (plural fiaccole)

  1. torch (flaming sort)

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Maltese: fjakkla

Further reading
  • fiaccola in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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