gibetto

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French gibet, probably from Frankish *gibb (“forked stick”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒiˈbet.to/
  • Rhymes: -etto
  • Hyphenation: gi‧bét‧to

Noun

gibetto m (plural gibetti)

  1. (obsolete) gallows, gibbet
    Synonyms: forca, patibolo
    • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, line 151; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      « […] Io fei gibetto a me delle mie case.»
      “ […] Of my own house I made myself a gibbet.”

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