seggio

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From an old conjugated form of the verb sedere (“to sit”)[1][2](cf. the forms with -gg-, also Latin sedeō), or an archaic variant seggere.[3] Cf. also sedia. Less likely from a Vulgar Latin *sedium or *sidium.[4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛd.d͡ʒo/, /ˈsed.d͡ʒo/[5]
  • Rhymes: -ɛddʒo, -eddʒo
  • Hyphenation: sèg‧gio, ség‧gio

Noun

seggio m (plural seggi)

  1. seat for those in power; throne
  2. (figurative, by extension) seat; role; authority
    il seggio della maestra ― the seat of the teacher
  3. (figurative, by extension) the seat for each senator, representative, etc.

References
  1. sèggio in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  2. seggio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  3. seggia in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  4. Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “seggio”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
  5. seggio in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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