califfo

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Latin calipha, from Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”, literally “successor, substitute”), from the triliteral root خ ل ف (ḵ l f).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈlif.fo/
  • Rhymes: -iffo
  • Hyphenation: ca‧lìf‧fo

Noun

califfo m (plural califfi)

  1. caliph
    • 1265 August 11, Rainerio Scorcialupi, Trattato di pace fra i pisani e l'emiro di Tunisi [Peace treaty between the Pisan and the emir of Tunis]‎[1], Prologus pacis; collected in Ernesto Monaci, editor, Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli, con prospetto delle inflessioni grammaticali e glossario, volume 1, Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1889, page 166:
      Per lo comandamento de lo signore califfo grande et alto, […]
      By command of the great and distinguished lord caliph […]

Derived terms

References

  • califfo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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