schiena

Italian

Etymology

From Lombardic skina, related to Old Saxon skina, German Schiene and English shin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskjɛ.na/, /ˈskje.na/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɛna, -ena
  • Hyphenation: schiè‧na, schié‧na

Noun

schiena f (plural schiene)

  1. back (the rear of the body)
    Synonyms: dorso, groppone, (colloquial) spina dorsale

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ schiena in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.