Italian–English dictionary

camera da letto

(architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

camera mortuaria

A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.

camera oscura

A darkened chamber in which the image of an outside object is projected and focused onto a surface.

camera stagna

A sealed, airtight chamber, such as in a manned spacecraft or submarine, used to provide access to and from the sealed area without allowing air out or water in.

camerata

A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.

cameriera

A maid who handles the chores in a bedroom.

cameriere

A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.

camerinista

(theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).

camerlengo

The cardinal who administers the Roman Catholic Church in the interregnum between Popes.

Camerun

A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Cameroon. Capital: Yaoundé. It also claims Ambazonia.

camice

(Christianity, chiefly, _, Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism) A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments.

camicetta

(fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.

camicia

(fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.

camicia da notte

A long loose robe worn mainly by women for sleeping in.

camicia di forza

A jacket-like garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving his or her arms. Often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others.

Camilla

A en given name.

caminetto

An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney.

camino

A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.

camion

(countable, uncountable, US, Canada, Australia) A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods; (in Malaysia/Singapore) a such vehicle with a closed or covered carriage.

camisaccio

(military, _, fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.

cammella

A mammalian beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.

cammello

A mammalian beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.

camminare

(ambitransitive) To take a long walk (on something) for pleasure or exercise.

camminare a fatica

(intransitive) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.

camminare impettito

(intransitive) Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.

camminare in punta di piedi

(intransitive) To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground. [from late 14th C.]

camminata

Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving on legs.

camminatore

The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.

cammino

(computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.

camola

Any flying insect of the order Lepidoptera not in the superfamily Papilionoidea, most species of which are nocturnal and can be distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.

camorra

A secret crime organization from Naples, Italy, equivalent to the Mafia of Sicily.

camoscio

A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, shad and kangaroo.

campagna

(heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)

Campagnaro

A placename in the United States:

campagnolo

A rural person.

campana

A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

campana d'allarme

An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, originally especially with reference to France.

campanella

A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

campanelli

(musical instrument) A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch.

Campanellino

Anything whose existence or power depends on the faith of believers.

campanello

A device on or adjacent to an outer door for announcing one's presence. It can be mechanical, directly sounding a bell, or a button that electrically sounds a chime or buzzer inside the building.

campanile

(architecture) A tower or steeple typically containing bells, especially as part of a church.

campanilistico

(derogatory) Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

campata

(architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.

campeggiamento

(often, military) A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite.

campeggiare

(transitive, intransitive) To set up camp.

campeggio

(uncountable) The recreational or educational activity of temporarily living in a tent or similar accommodation.

campetto

An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.

campicello

An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.

Campidoglio

The building in Washington, D.C., in which both houses of the Congress of the United States meet.

campionare

(transitive) To take or to test a sample or samples of.

campione

Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.

campionessa

Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.

campo

A particular geographic region.

campo da corse

A course over which any type of races are run.

campo di battaglia

The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.

campo di prigionìa

An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.

campo di variazione

(statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.

camposanto

A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

campus

The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.

camuffaggio

The act of disguising.

camuffamento

(military) The use of natural or artificial material on personnel, objects, or tactical positions with the aim of confusing, misleading, or evading the enemy.

camuffare

(transitive) To hide or disguise something by covering it up or changing its appearance.

camuffarsi

(transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.

camuflare

(transitive) To hide or disguise something by covering it up or changing its appearance.

camuso

Conspicuously short.

Cana

(biblical) The site where Jesus miraculously turned water into wine.

Canada

A country in North America. Capital: Ottawa. Largest city: Toronto.

canaglia

(derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.

canale

A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

canale artificiale

An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.

canale di drenaggio

A ditch along the side of a road.

canale di scarico

A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

canale di scolo

A ditch along the side of a road.

canaletto

(typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

canalone

A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.

canapa

A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia.

canapè

An hors d’oeuvre, a bite-sized open-faced sandwich made of thin bread or toast topped with savory garnish.

canapo

(nautical) A cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship.

canapule

A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching

canarino

Of a light yellow colour.

canario

(countable, uncountable) A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.

Canberra

The capital city of Australia; located in the Australian Capital Territory.

Canc

Abbreviation of Delete (“key of a computer keyboard that deletes text, files, etc.”).

cancellare

(transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.

cancellazione

(US) A cancellation.

cancelleria

Writing materials, envelopes, office materials.

cancelletto

(typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

cancelliere

The rank or post of a chancellor.

cancellino

(North America, Philippines) An object used to erase something written either by chalk on a chalkboard, by a marker on a whiteboard, or by some other erasable implement; a chalkboard eraser, whiteboard eraser, etc.

canceroso

(oncology) Relating to or affected with cancer.

cancrena

The necrosis and rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.

cancro

(medicine, oncology, disease) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.

candeggiare

(transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).

candeggina

(uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.

candela

A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.

candelabro

A candle holder with branches to hold more than one candle.

candeliere da parete

A candlestick (holder for a candle, especially a circular tube, with a brim, into which a candle is inserted), either with a handle for carrying, or with a bracket for attaching to a wall.

candidamente

in a candid manner; frankly.

candidare

(nonstandard, chiefly, jargon, _, &, _, NNES) To make or name (something) as a candidate (to be chosen or deemed suitable for a purpose).

candidarsi

(intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" or "at" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).

candidata

(originally, jargon) A participant in an examination. [from 1690s]

candidato

One who applies for something; one who makes a request; a petitioner.

candidatura

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.

candido

Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.

candire

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

cane

A mammal of the family Canidae:

cane da caccia

A dog used in hunting; a hunting dog.

cane da punta

(hunting) A breed of hunting dog, trained to point out game.

cane di Terranova

A very large breed of working dog from Newfoundland, with a shaggy, usually black coat, known for its water rescue ability, strength, and gentle disposition.

cane sciolto

(by extension) One who is unconventional or does not abide by rules. [from 1880s]

canestro

A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

canfora

(organic compound) A white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone, 1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one, with a strong pungent odour, used in pharmacy, also known as laurel camphor or common/ordinary camphor.

canguro

A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia. [from 18th c.]

Canicatti

(figurative) Any proverbially distant or remote place.

canide

Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals) and vulpines (foxes).

canile

A house or shelter for a dog.

canino

Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.

Canizio

A en given name, originally used in Scotland, popular in all English-speaking countries in the 20th century.

canna

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.

canna d'organo

(music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe. [from 14th c.]

canna da pesca

A rod, often made in sections, which carries a line used for angling and is used to support both the line and the reel and to cast the line.

canna da zucchero

(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae

canna della melodia

The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.

canna di bambu

(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae

canna fumaria

A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).

cannabis

(slang, uncountable) Marijuana.

cannare

(transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)

Canne

(historical) A village in the Apulia region of south east Italy, known as the site of a battle in 216 B.C. in which the Carthaginians under Hannibal defeated the Romans

cannella

Containing cinnamon, or having a cinnamon taste.

cannibale

An organism which eats others of its own or similar species or kind, especially a human or other human-like creature such as a zombie who consumes human flesh.

cannibalesco

Tending toward cannibalism.

cannibalismo

The act of eating another of one's own species.

cannibalistico

Tending toward cannibalism.

canniccio

(countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.

cannista

A person who fishes with a hook and line.

cannocchiale

A small portable telescope.

cannolo

(mostly, in the plural) A tube of fried pastry, typical of Sicily, filled with ricotta or similar cream cheese, and flavorings, eaten as a dessert.

cannonare

To bombard with cannons.

cannone

A knife pleat when arranged back to back with others.

cannoneggiare

To bombard with cannons.

cannoniera

(nautical) Any of the various types of small armed vessels.

cannoniere

(military unit) An artillery soldier who maintains and operates (historical) a cannon, or (now) some other piece of heavy artillery.

canoa

(watercraft) A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.

canone

(legal, real estate) Rent paid under a ground lease, usually long-term or in perpetuity, for a surface right or estate in land where the landowner (surface owner) and the owner of improvements (ground lessor) are separate; the improvements are effectively security for the payment of the rent.

canone di locazione

A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.

canonica

A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.

canonico

A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

canonizzare

(chiefly, Roman Catholicism) To declare (a deceased person) as a saint, and enter them into the canon of saints.

canottaggio

The action of the verb to row.