Noun: sfincione
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | sfincione |
| Plural m | sfincioni |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like sfincione
rigeneratore,
biancomangiare,
interneurone,
tiomersale,
chemiorecettore,
posteggiatore,
concelebrante,
pleistocene,
kudu maggiore,
sepide,
setale,
segone,
sedere,
sedime,
sedile,
gremiale,
chiarificatore,
savore,
sapere,
sapone, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Sicilian sfinciuni, from sfincia, from Arabic إِسْفَنْج (ʔisfanj), conflated with Latin spongia (“sponge”), ultimately from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos). See also funcia. See: Latin Nouns '
spongia', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σπογγιά'.
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