cribro

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cribrum, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (to sieve). Compare the inherited old Italian crivo, and related crivello.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkri.bro/
  • Rhymes: -ibro
  • Hyphenation: crì‧bro

Noun

cribro m (plural cribri)

  1. (obsolete) sieve
  2. (anatomy, botany) cribrose tube

Latin

Etymology

From crībrum +‎ .

Pronunciation

Verb

crībrō (present infinitive crībrāre, perfect active crībrāvī, supine crībrātum); first conjugation

  1. to sift or sieve

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Asturian: cribar
  • French: cribler
  • Galician: cribar
  • Italian: cribrare
  • Portuguese: crivar
  • Romanian: ciura
  • Spanish: cribar

References

  • cribro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cribro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.