Noun: sfumatura
Gender: f
Hyphenation: sfu‧ma‧tù‧ra
| Singular f | sfumatura |
| Plural f | sfumature |
Sample Sentences
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nelle sue parole c'era una certa sfumatura di tristezza (in his words there was a certain undertone of sadness)
Nouns inflected like sfumatura
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From sfumare + -tura. Omitting several steps, from Latin fūmus.
2. For the meaning development compare French nuance (from Latin nūbēs). See: Latin Nouns '
fūmus'.
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