sensale
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- sensaio m (Tuscan, archaic)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic سِمْسار (simsār),[1] from Persian سپسار (sapsâr),[2] both meaning “mediator”. Compare Sicilian sinzali.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sensale m or f by sense (plural sensali)
- commercial agent
- Synonyms: mediatore m, mediatrice f
- (by extension) matchmaker (arranger of marriages)
- Synonyms: intermediario m, intermediaria f, mediatore m, mediatrice f, mezzano m, mezzana f, paraninfo m
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “sensale”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
- ^ sensale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]sensale
- second-person singular voseo imperative of sensar combined with le
Categories:
- Italian terms borrowed from Arabic
- Italian terms derived from Arabic
- Italian terms derived from Persian
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ale
- Rhymes:Italian/ale/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian nouns with multiple genders
- Italian masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- it:Occupations
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish verb forms