Italian–English dictionary

sacrale

Of or pertaining to priests or other religious authorities, especially pharaonic priests of Ancient Egypt.

sacralità

The property of being sacred.

Sacramento

The capital city of California, United States and the county seat of Sacramento County.

sacrestano

The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.

sacrestia

A room in a church where sacred vessels, books, vestments, etc. are kept. Sometimes also used by clergy to prepare for worship or for meetings.

sacrificale

Relating to sacrifice

sacrilegio

Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.

sacrilego

Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.

sacro

(British, AU, dated) A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.

sadicamente

In a ruthless manner; with cruelty; without pity or compassion.

sadico

One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others.

sadista

One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others.

sadomasochismo

The practices of sadism and masochism collectively, usually in reference to consensual practices within the BDSM community.

sadomasochista

A person who enjoys both inflicting and receiving pain for sexual gratification.

Saetta

The first reindeer of Santa Claus.

saettare

To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.

safari

A trip into any undeveloped area to see, photograph or to hunt wild animals in their own environment.

saffico

Lesbian, relating to lesbianism, or (broadly) to women who are attracted (not necessarily exclusively) to women.

saga

A person (now usually particularly a woman) who uses magical or similar supernatural powers to influence or predict events.

sagace

Mentally keen and alert.

saggezza

(uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.

saggiamente

In a wise manner; using good judgement.

saggiare

To seek or solicit donations, information, opinions, support, etc.; to conduct a survey.

saggiatura

The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.

saggio

The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.

saggista

One who composes essays; a writer of short compositions.

saggistica

Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.

saggistico

Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.

sagola

A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation. [from mid-16th c.]

sagoma

(informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.

sagomare

(transitive) To give something a shape and definition.

sagra

(in combination) A gathering for a specified reason or occasion.

sagrato

(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.

sagrestano

The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.

sagrestia

A room in a church where sacred vessels, books, vestments, etc. are kept. Sometimes also used by clergy to prepare for worship or for meetings.

Sahara

A desert in North Africa and the largest hot desert in the world.

saio

A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.

sakè

(alcohol) Rice wine; a drink made from filtered fermented rice.

sala

A large room for public meetings or performances.

sala d'aspetto

(British) The living room or sitting room of a house.

sala d'attesa

(British) The living room or sitting room of a house.

sala d'udienza

The room where a judge presides over hearings and trials, sometimes with a jury.

sala da ballo

A large room used for dancing and banquets.

sala da concerto

(historical) A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts.

sala da tè

A cafe or restaurant that serves tea, usually with light food.

sala dei bambini

(countable) A place where nursing or the raising of children is carried on.

sala macchine

(nautical) A compartment on a ship in which the engine machinery is located.

sala operatoria

A room in a hospital used for performing surgical operations.

salace

(botany) Having a sharp and stiff point.

salacità

(uncountable) The state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness.

Saladino

(history) First sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, who led the Muslim opposition to the European Crusaders in the Levant.

salamandra acquaiola

Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus.

salame

A large cured meat sausage of Italian origin, served in slices.

salame piccante

A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper.

salamoia

Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.

salare

(mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.

salario

A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.

salasso

(historical, medicine) The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person.

salato

Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.

salcio

The wood of these trees.

saldamente

In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound [from 10th c.].

saldare

(transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).

saldarsi

(intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.

saldatore

A hand-held tool with a heated tip, used to melt and apply solder.

saldatura

joining two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination, or

saldezza

Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty.

saldo

(accounting) A list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.

sale

Of water: containing salt, saline.

sale della terra

(idiomatic) A person or group of people considered to represent the most decent and admirable parts of humanity.

salgemma

(mineral) Native salt; sodium chloride NaCl as a mineral; rock salt.

salice

The wood of these trees.

salice delle capre

A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.

salicone

A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.

saliente

Projecting outwards.

saliera

A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.

salino

Containing salt; salty.

salire

(intransitive) To move upward, to fly, to soar.

salire a bordo

(transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.

salire di livello

(intransitive, RPG, video games) To progress to the next level.

salita

The act of ascending; a motion upwards.

saliva

(uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.

salivare

(ambitransitive) To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.

salivazione

The saliva, spit or food particles that have flowed back into a drink after someone has drunk from it.

salma

The dead body of any animal with flesh; the dead body of a vertebrate; a carcass.

salmastro

(of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.

salmerino

Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.

salmodiare

To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.

salmonella

Any of the serotypes of the two species of rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, especially Salmonella enterica, that cause typhoid fever and salmonellosis, manifest as food poisoning and other diseases.

Salomè

(rare) A en given name.

salone

A large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal, or providing access to and linking the platforms in a railway terminus.

salone da esposizione

A room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products.

salone da parrucchiere

(countable) The place of business of a barber; a store where a person (usually a male) can go to get a haircut.

Salonicco

A port city, the capital of Central Macedonia, in northern Greece.

salopette

(US, Canada, Australia) Loose-fitting pants with supporting cross-straps and a panel of material in the chest (called a bib), often associated with farm work.

salotto

A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.

salpareti

A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).

salsa

(Southern US) A pale sauce prepared from a roux with meat fat; a type of béchamel sauce.

salsa rubra

(uncountable, chiefly, US, Canada, UK) Ellipsis of tomato ketchup (“a tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners”).

salsapariglia

Any of various tropical (Central and South) American vines of the genus Smilax, such as Smilax aspera, which have fragrant roots.

salsiccia

A sausage, typically a frankfurter.

salso

To which salt has been added.

saltàr su

(transitive) To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.

saltare

To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.

saltarupe

A small antelope native to eastern and southern Africa having a dense, brown, speckled coat (Oreotragus oreotragus).

saltata

A dish prepared this way.

saltellamento

A playful leap or jump.

saltellare

To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.

saltello

A short jump.

salterello

Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano. [from 16th c.]

salto

A sizeable jump, great leap.

salto condizionale

(computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.

salto di qualità

Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.

saltuariamente

On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes. [from 15th c.]

salubre

Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.

salubrità

Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.

salume

(uncountable) Cured meat that is ready to be eaten, especially pork.

salutare

(transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.

salute

(idiomatic) Said to someone who has just sneezed, as a polite remark.

saluti

(sometimes, formal, sometimes, humorous) Hello.

saluto

A short visit, usually for social purposes.

salva

A general outburst from a group of people at an event.

salvaguardare

To protect; to keep from harm or injury.

salvaguardia

The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

salvare

To save from any violence, danger or evil.

salvastrella

Any of the herbs of genus Sanguisorba (syn. Poterium), including salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor), an herb used in salads and herbal teas.

salvataggio

A rescue, especially a financial rescue.

salvatore

A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.

salvatrice

A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.

salve

A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.

salvezza

The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.

salvietta

A serviette; a (usually rectangular) piece of cloth or paper used at the table for wiping the mouth and hands for cleanliness while eating.

salvo

Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, (archaic) with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that".

Samanta

A en given name.

samara

The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.

samaritana

A native, or inhabitant of Samaria; especially one practising certain ethnoreligious traditions indigenous to that region.

samaritano

Of, or relating to Samaria or Samaritans.

sambuca

(musical instruments) An ancient form of triangular harp having a very sharp, shrill tone.

sambuco

A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.

sami

A member of an indigenous Finno-Ugric people of Lapland.

Samoa

A country consisting of the western part of the Samoan archipelago in Polynesia, in Oceania. Official name: Independent State of Samoa. Capital and largest city: Apia. Formerly Western Samoa, and, before that, German Samoa. It is distinct from American Samoa.

samoana

Of, from, or pertaining to Samoa, the Samoan people or the Samoan language.

samoano

Of, from, or pertaining to Samoa, the Samoan people or the Samoan language.

samovar

A metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the urn. Today, it is more likely that the water is heated by an electric coil.

sampietrino

A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.

samurai

In feudal Japan, a soldier who served a daimyo.

San

A title given to a saint, often prefixed to the person's name.

sanare

(transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.

sanatorio

An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.

sancire

(figurative, law) To protect (an idea, ideal, or philosophy) within an official law or treaty.

sancta sanctorum

The consecrated (or sacred) area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar.