Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vaporetto

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English

Syllables: va-poret-to
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A public water bus, originally steam-powered, found especially in Venice.

Etymology

Etymology tree Italian vapore Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Italian -etto Italian vaporettobor. English vaporetto Borrowed from Italian vaporetto.

Inflected Forms

vaporettos (plural) vaporetti (plural)

Questions

What does vaporetto mean?: A public water bus, originally steam-powered, found especially in Venice.
Where does vaporetto come from?: Etymology tree Italian vapore Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Italian -etto Italian vaporettobor. English vaporetto Borrowed from Italian vaporetto.

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