Italian–English dictionary

Yukon

A territory in northern Canada. Capital: Whitehorse.

yuppie

(informal, sometimes derogatory, dated) A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.

yurta

A large, round, semi-permanent tent with vertical walls and a conical roof, usually associated with Central Asia and Mongolia (where it is known as a ger).

zabaglione

A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy, or whisky; popular at Christmas.

zabaione

A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy, or whisky; popular at Christmas.

zabajone

A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy, or whisky; popular at Christmas.

zabattiera

A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

zabattiero

A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

zac

(onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.

Zaccaria

A en given name, English vernacular form of Zacharias, Zachariah and Zechariah.

zaff

Representing the sound or action of a zap.

zaffata

An upward spray of mist or water.

zafferano

A seabird and member of the gull family, Larus fuscus.

zafferanone

A cultivated thistle-like plant, Carthamus tinctorius, family Asteraceae, now grown mainly for its oil.

Zagabria

The capital and largest city of Croatia.

zaino

A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.

Zaire

(historical) Former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a country in Central Africa; used from 1971–1997.

Zambia

A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zambia. Formerly called Northern Rhodesia.

zampa

A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.

zampillare

To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.

zampogna

A musical wind instrument possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds.

zanella

A ditch along the side of a road.

zangola

A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.

zanna

A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.

zanzara

A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria, dengue and yellow fever.

Zanzibar

An island region of Tanzania in the Indian Ocean.

zappa

(when not otherwise specified) An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.

zappare

(transitive) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

zappaterra

A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.

zar

(historical) An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.

zarevic

A son of a tsar, a prince in Russia or Bulgaria.

zarina

(historical) An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar.

zatta

Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types:

zattera

A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.

zavorra

(nautical) Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.

zazzera

(humorous) A dense head of hair.

zecca

(slang, derogatory, political) A person of left-wing political views.

zeffiro

Any light refreshing wind; a gentle breeze.

zefir

Anything of fine, soft, or light quality, especially fabric.

Zefiro

(Greek god) The god of the West Wind.

Zelanda

The largest island of Denmark.

zelante

Zealous; characterized by devotion.

zelantemente

Like, or in the manner of, a zealot; with great zeal or zealotry.

zelcova

A kind of tree in the elm family (genus Zelkova). [from 19th c.]

zelo

The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

zelota

(archaic) A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.

zenit

(by extension) Highest point or state; peak.

Zeno

A en given name.

Zenone

A en given name.

zeppa

One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.

zeppola

The act or a habit of lisping.

zerbino

A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.

zero

(racquet sports, billiards) Zero, no score.

zero assoluto

(physics) The coldest possible temperature, equivalent to zero on the Kelvin scale, or approximately −273.15 °C, −459.67 °F; a total absence of heat; the temperature at which the motion of all molecules would cease. [First attested in the early 19th century.]

zeta

The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.

Zeus

(Greek god) Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera.

zibellina

(countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.

zibellino

(countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.

zietta

(Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand) Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.

ziettina

(Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand) Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.

zietto

Familiar or endearing form of uncle

ziggurat

(archaeology) A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories

zigolo

Any of various songbirds of the genus Emberiza, having short bills and brown or gray plumage.

zigomatico

(anatomy, relational) Of, relating to, or located in the area of the zygomatic bone or zygomatic arch.

zigomo

The small prominent bone of the cheek.

zigote

(cytology, also, attributive) A eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process. [from late 19th c.]

zigzag

A line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.

zigzagare

(intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

Zimbabwe

A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zimbabwe. Formerly called Southern Rhodesia or Rhodesia.

zimbello

A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.

zincare

(rare) To electroplate with zinc.

zinco

(countable) A single atom of this element.

zingara

(colloquial) An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.

zingaro

(UK, MLE, Ireland, derogatory, offensive ) A working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.

zinna

(colloquial, slang) A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human.

zio

(colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.

zione

Used to form nouns or noun-like words (or elements of noun phrases) from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action.

zip!

(onomatopoeia) Imitative of high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.

zippare

(intransitive, followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.

ziqqurat

(archaeology) A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories

zitella

(sometimes, derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.

zitello

(obsolete) An unmarried woman.

zito

(obsolete) An unmarried woman.

zitto

Demanding silence.

ziuccia

(Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand) Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.

zizza

(colloquial, slang) A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human.

zizzania

Any of genus Lolium of grasses, especially as a weed in wheat fields.

zoccolo

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

Zoe

A en given name.

zolfanello

A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.

zolfatara

An area of volcanic activity that gives off sulfurous steam. [from 18th c.]

zolfo

(biblical) The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.

zolla

A dense clump of grass or vegetation; a tussock. [from 10th c.]

zolla d'erba

(countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.

zollare

To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.

zolletta

A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.

zombi

(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.

zombie

(slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

zona

A particular geographic region.

zonato

Marked with bands of colour.

zoo

(countable) A park where live animals are exhibited.

zoo-

animal

zooiatrico

Of or relating to the medical or surgical treatment of non-human animals, especially domestic and farm animals.

zoologa

One who studies zoology.

zoologia

The part of biology relating to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.

zoologo

One who studies zoology.

zoomare

(photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.

zoppicare

(intransitive) To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg.

zoppo

(informal) Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.

zotico

Behaving as a boor; rough in manners.

zoticone

A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.

zozzo

(now, _, chiefly, _, US) Dirty, filthy. [from 14th c.]

zucca

(slang) The head.

zucca pelata

(pejorative) A bald person, especially a man.

zuccherato

Of food or drink: containing sugar.

zuccherifero

Of food, drink, etc, containing or covered with a large amount of sugar.

zuccherino

Of food, drink, etc, containing or covered with a large amount of sugar.

zuccheroso

Of food, drink, etc, containing or covered with a large amount of sugar.

zucchina

(British, Ireland, uncountable) A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.

zucchino

(British, Ireland, uncountable) A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.

zuffa

A skirmish, a hostile encounter.

zufolo

(music) A type of small flute of the fipple family.

Žukov

A transliteration of the Russian surname Жу́ков (Žúkov).

zulù

Pertaining to the Zulu people, culture, or language.

zumata

An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally.

zuppa

(countable) A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

zuppa d'avena

A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

zuppa inglese

(cooking) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.

zuppo

Extremely wet; saturated.