Italian–English dictionary

Gessica

A en given name.

gesso

A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.

gesta

A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.

gesta eroiche

A heroic or extraordinary deed.

Gestapo

(historical, Nazism) The secret police of Nazi Germany.

gestare

(intransitive) To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.

gestazione

The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.

gestibile

Capable of being managed or controlled.

gesticolare

(intransitive) To make gestures or motions, as in speaking.

gesticolio

A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.

gestione

The state of being governed.

gestire

(transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.

gesto

A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.

gesto eroico

A heroic or extraordinary deed.

gestore

(management) A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.

gestualità

(music, uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.

Gesù

(historical, religion) One of a variety of persons or entities in western Manichaeism, of whom some correspond closely to the Christian conception of Jesus of Nazareth.

gesuita

(Catholicism) A member of the Society of Jesus.

gettare

To throw down or aside. [from 15th c.]

gettare alle ortiche

(transitive, figurative) To squander or waste.

gettare il malocchio

(transitive) To cast a spell on.

gettare in mare

To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

gettare la maschera

(transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.

gettare nel panico

To cause (someone) to feel panic; also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.

gettarsi nel panico

To cause (someone) to feel panic; also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.

getter

(sciences) A material which is included in a vacuum system or device for removing gas by sorption.

getto

A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the tuyeres of a blast furnace, a person's mouth, etc.

gettone

(games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.

geyser

(planetology, geology, volcanology) A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.

Gezabele

(biblical character) The Phoenician princess and Queen of Ancient Israel who appears in the Old Testament (1 Kings & 2 Kings), and who incited heresy and lured the Jews away from their God and back to idols.

Ghana

A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Ghana.

Gheddafi

A transliteration of the Arabic surname القَذَّافِيّ (al-qaḏḏāfiyy).

gheez

An Ethiopian language which is extinct but still used liturgically.

ghenga

A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

ghepardo

(cat) A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head; native to Africa and southeast Asia (where it is nearly extinct) and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.

Gherardo

A en given name.

gheriglio

(botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.

ghermire

To use the claws to seize, to grip.

ghetto

An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)

ghiaccia

(cooking) A sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar, often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, or flavorings, typically used for baked goods.

ghiacciaia

Anything which cools.

ghiacciaio

(geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.

ghiacciare

(intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

ghiacciato

Cold, chilly; icy.

ghiaccio

(physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.

ghiaccio secco

Carbon dioxide frozen in the solid state, used especially as a cooling agent and for the production of fog-like special effects. It sublimes at −78.5 °C (−109.3 °F) at normal atmospheric pressure.

ghiacciolo

A drooping, tapering shape of ice.

ghiaia

(uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.

ghiaione

(uncountable) Loose stony debris on a slope. [from early 18th c.]

ghianda

(nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

ghiandaia

A widespread species of jay, usually crested and with pinkish-brown plumage and a harsh screech (Garrulus glandarius).

ghiandolare

(medicine) Pertaining to a gland or glands.

ghigliottina

(historical, also, figuratively) A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.

ghignare

(intransitive) To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.

ghigno

A facial expression.

ghinea

(British, historical) A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.

ghiottone

Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean; specifically, the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).

ghiottoneria

The vice of eating to excess.

ghiria

A weight consisting of a cast iron ball with a single handle for gripping the weight during exercise.

ghiribizzo

A whim.

ghirlanda

A garland or circlet for the head.

ghostare

(chiefly, social media, slang) To stop communicating with (someone) on social media, though text messages, etc., without explanation, especially as a way of ending a relationship; hence, to end a relationship with (someone) by stopping all communication without explanation.

ghostwriter

A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.

ghoul

(mythology) A demon said to feed on corpses.

gi

The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

già

Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.

Giacarta

(historical) Former name of Jakarta, used during the Dutch East Indies period.

giacca

A semi-formal jacket.

giacca a vento

A heavy weatherproof jacket with an attached hood; a parka or windcheater.

giacché

Because.

giacchetta

A short jacket worn when sitting up in bed, usually by women.

giacenza

(operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.

giacere

(slang) To have sex with.

giacere bocconi

(intransitive) To be prone on the ground.

giacere prono

(intransitive) To be prone on the ground.

giaciglio

A straw bed.

Giacinta

A en given name. One of the less common flower names used since the 19th century.

Giacinto

A en given name. One of the less common flower names used since the 19th century.

Giacobbe

A en given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan.

Giacomina

A en given name.

Giacomo

A en given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan.

Giada

A en given name.

giadeite

(mineral) A pyroxene mineral, a sodium aluminium silicate with the chemical formula Na(Al,Fe3+)Si2O6, found in metamorphic rocks.

Giaele

A en given name.

Giaffa

A port in western Israel.

giaggiolo

(botany) A plant of the genus Iris, common in the northern hemisphere, and generally having attractive blooms (See w:Iris (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).

giaguaro

A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.

giaietto

The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

gialla

The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.

giallastro

Somewhat yellow in colour.

gialliccio

Somewhat yellow in colour.

giallo

(British, AU) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.

giallo canarino

A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.

giallognolo

Somewhat yellow in colour.

Giamaica

An island and country in the Caribbean.

giamaicana

A person from Jamaica or of Jamaican descent.

giamaicano

Of, from, or pertaining to Jamaica, the Jamaican people or the Jamaican language.

Giamila

A en given name.

giammai

(idiomatic, British) Never.

Gianna

A en given name, the standard feminine form of John since the 17th century.

Gianni

An Anglicised spelling of the German given name Hänsel. English equivalent: Johnny.

Giano

(biblical) One of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John).

Giappone

A country and archipelago of East Asia. Capital and largest city: Tokyo.

giapponese

Of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of Japan, its people, language, or culture.

giara

A container and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.

giardinaggio

(horticulture) The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.

giardiniera

One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.

giardiniere

One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.

giardino

(in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

giardino pubblico

(in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

giarrettella

A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.

giarrettiera

A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.

giaurro

(religious slur) A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians.

Giava

An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.

gibbo

A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.

gibbone

A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.

gibboso

(astronomy, of a celestial body) Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.

gibibyte

(computing) Strictly, 230 (10243, or 1,073,741,824) bytes or 210 (1024) mebibytes, as opposed to a gigabyte.

Gibilterra

A peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia.

giga

(informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).

gigante

A mythical human of very great size.

gigantesco

(archaic) Bellowing; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.

giglio

(heraldiccharge) A design representing a flower whose three petals are joined together at the bottom (⚜, ⚜️), often used in heraldry, where it is particularly associated with the French monarchy.

gigolò

A man who has a sexual relationship with a woman from whom he receives payment; a prostitute.

ǧihād

(Islam) A holy war undertaken by Muslims.

Gilberto

A en given name.

gilda

A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages, established to oversee and protect their specific commercial interests and to provide mutual aid.

gilè

(North America) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.

Gilgamesh

A semi-legendary king of Uruk, who is the hero of the Babylonian poem Epic of Gilgamesh.

gin

A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.

ginecomastia

(diseases) Excessive development of breasts in men, resembling the breast development in women.

ginepraio

A confused, muddled, or messed-up condition or state; a ridiculously chaotic situation; confusion or chaos regarded as the normal state.

ginepro

Any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.

ginestra

Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.

gingerbread

(transitive, idiomatic, uncommon) To decorate or embellish in an ornate or intricate way.

gingillo

A small, showy ornament, especially a piece of jewellery.

ginnare

(transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.

ginnasiale

(US, Philippines) A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school.

ginnasio

A type of secondary school in some European countries which typically prepares students for university.

ginnasta

One who performs (the sport of) gymnastics.

ginnastica a corpo libero

(swimming) A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.

ginocchio

(reflexive) To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.

ginsi

denim trousers

Gioacchino

A en given name, always rare in English.

Gioachino

A en given name, always rare in English.

giocare

(intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.

giocata

(by extension) The rower nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rhythm for the other rowers; the position in the boat occupied by this rower.

giocattolo

Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child. [from 16th c.]

giocherellare

(transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.

giocherellone

liking play, prone to play frequently, such as a child or kitten; rather sportive.