Noun: cobalto
Gender: m
Hyphenation: co‧bàl‧to
| Singular m | cobalto |
| Plural m | cobalti |
Sample Sentences
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Videro tutti là, di soprassalto, ¶ quella fanciulla, con le braccia in croce, ¶ bianca sul liscio lago di cobalto. (They all saw, suddenly, ¶ that lady, with arms crossed, ¶ white over the smooth cobalt lake.) [1909, Giovanni Pascoli, “L'altra faccia lunare [The Other Lunar Face]”, in Gli emigranti nella luna [The Migrants in the Moon], 4th edition, collected in Nuovi poemetti, Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, published 1918, page 170, lines 32–34:]
Nouns inflected like cobalto
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From New Latin cōbaltum, derived from German Kobalt, derived from Kobolet, alteration of Kobold (“elf, goblin”). See: German Nouns '
Kobalt'.
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