appunto
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See also: appuntò
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]appunto m (plural appunti)
- note (brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory)
- gli studenti prendono appunti ― the students take notes
- reproach
- (computing, in the plural) clipboard, scratchpad
Derived terms
[edit]- fare un appunto a (“to find fault with”)
- prendere appunti (“to take notes”)
Etymology 2
[edit]From a punto (literally “to [the] point”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]appunto
- (focus) exactly, precisely
- 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XIX, page 281, lines 7–9:
- Già eravamo, a la seguente tomba, ¶ montati dello scoglio in quella parte ¶ ch'a punto sovra mezzo 'l fosso piomba.
- We had already on the following tomb ¶ ascended to that portion of the crag ¶ which o'er the middle of the moat hangs plumb.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]appunto
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- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/unto
- Rhymes:Italian/unto/3 syllables
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- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pewǵ-
- Italian deverbals
- Italian terms suffixed with -o (deverbal)
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
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- it:Computing
- Italian adverbs
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