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lesso.

boiled

5 characters2 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈles.so/

  1. boiled

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Latin ēlixus (“boiled, soaked”). Compare the regular thematic counterpart lessato, from lessare (“to boil”). Bentley analyses/analyzes the former as agentless and derived from a change-of-state root, and the latter as agentive and derived from a verbal base.

noun/ˈles.so/

  1. boiled meat

    masculine · uncountable

  2. a dish consisting of boiled meat

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Latin ēlixus (“boiled, soaked”). Compare the regular thematic counterpart lessato, from lessare (“to boil”). Bentley analyses/analyzes the former as agentless and derived from a change-of-state root, and the latter as agentive and derived from a verbal base.

verb/ˈles.so/

  1. first-person singular present indicative of lessare

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
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