proto

From Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”).

(architecture, regional, Venice) an architect in charge of maintenance and restoration of St Mark's Basilica


vaporetto

From vapore (“vapor”) + -etto (diminutive).


Ghetto

(Venice) a small area of Venice where the Jews of the city were once forced to live


Lido

English: lido

(Venice) a long sandy island (a sandbar) in the Venice lagoon with many hotels and a long beach


Zattere

le Zattere (canonical feminine plural)
la Fondamenta delle Zattere (alternative)

Literally, “rafts, pontoons”, from the plural of zattera.

(Venice) a street (partially a boardwalk) in Dorsoduro, Venice, alongside the Giudecca canal


bucintoro

(Venice) the state barge of Venice; used in the sposalizio ceremony


sposalizio

(Venice) the ritual wedding of Venice with the sea in which a ring is dropped into the water by a doge from a bucintoro (properly "lo sposalizio del mare")


rio

Inherited from Vulgar Latin rius (“river”), from Latin rīvus (“a small stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rih₂wós, from *h₃reyh₂- (“to flow; to move or set in motion”) and *-wós. Doublet of rivo.


raspa

(historical, Venice) a register in which the details of legal proceedings are kept


Actv

(Venice) Initialism of Azienda Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano (the Venice public transport authority)


cucco

(regional, chiefly Venice) a sort of handcrafted ceramic whistle


rogado

Borrowed from Venetan. Compare Italian rogato.


schei

Probably from spelling pronunciation of German Scheidemünze (“divisional coin”), borne on Austrian currency circulating in Lombardy–Venetia. Cognate with Venetan schèi (also singular schèo) and Lombard sghej.


briccola

→ French: bricole

Borrowed from Provençal bricola, from Middle High German brechen.

(Venice) any of a group of piles used to mark the navigable channels through the lagoon


altanella

(Venice) a covered terrace on a roof, or sometimes extending over a canal


bagigi

Short for babbagigi (“chufa, tiger nut”), from Arabic حَبّ الْعَزِيز (ḥabb al-ʕazīz, “chufa, tiger nut”).

der

حَبّ الْعَزِيز

(northern Italy, especially Venice) peanuts


clinton

tlb

(especially Venice, sometimes capitalized)


pregado

Borrowed from Venetan. Compare Italian pregato.

(historical, Venice) a member of the senate of the Republic of Venice


ancoi

Borrowed from Venetan ancoi, from Old Occitan ancoi, derived from an unknown term + Latin hodiē (“today”). Compare Ligurian ancheu.

Non credo che per terra vada ancoi
omo sì duro, che non fosse punto
per compassion di quel ch'i' vidi poi

1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 52–54; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

I do not think there's anyone today walking the earth, hardened enough to not be pierced by compassion at what I saw afterwards


Rialto

Blend of rio (“river, stream”) + alto (“high”).

blend

(Venice) an area of the San Polo sestiere of Venice famous for its market and bridge


motta

(Venice) a heap of sand or rocks in a riverbed


crostolo

From Latin crustulum (“confectionery, sweet”), diminutive of crustum (“cake”). By surface analysis, crosta + -olo. Cognate to Venetan gróstoło, whence Portuguese grostoli.

inh

(usually in the plural, Venice) type of dessert in the form of fritters dusted with sugar, eaten during Carnival time; similar to angel wings


galano

Borrowed from Spanish galán (“gallant”), from French galant. Doublet of galante.


nizioleto

Borrowed from Venetan niçiołeto, nisiołeto, a diminutive of niçioło, nisioło (“cloth; bedsheet”), from Latin linteolum (“linen cloth”). By surface analysis, lenzuolo + -etto.

(Venice) a type of Venetian street sign painted directly on the plaster of walls


portego

From Venetan pòrtego. Doublet of portico.


sotoportego

sotoporteghi (plural)
sottoportego (alternative)

Borrowed from Venetan sotopòrtego, cognate to sottoportico, from soto- (“under-”) + pòrtego (“porch”).

(Venice) an alley that passes underneath a building


salizada

(Venice) a wide street, often the principal one of a district


sardela

Borrowed from Venetan sardeła. Doublet of sardella.


spagheto

(Venice) a lanyard that holds boats before the start of a regatta race


vogalonga

vogalonghe (plural)
Vogalonga (alternative)

(Venice) a non-competitive rowing regatta in the form of a race between Venice and Burano


pielego

(Venice) a kind of boat similar to a bragozzo, used in the nothern part of the Adriatic Sea


tamiso

From Medieval Latin tamisium, probably from Gaulish. Compare French tamis.

(Venice) a kind of net used to capture prawns and small fishes


ghebo

(Venice) a natural or artificial canal that connects the lagoon with the areas of fishing situated inland


cogolo

From Latin cucullus (“hood”), probably through a Venetan language intermediate.


sproto

it-noun

sproto m (plural sproti, feminine sprota)


fraima

(Venice) that period of autumn in which the fish enters the sea from the lagoon of Venice


bosega

(Venice) thicklip grey mullet (Chelon labrosus)


archicchioccho

archicchioccho m (plural archicchiocchi)

Il cardo che si semina ilguale chiamano archicchioccho, ama il terreno letamato : ...

1545, Carolus Stephanus, translated by Pietro Lauro, Le herbe, fiori, stirpi che si piantano negli horti etc., page 63:

The cultivated teasel called archicchioccho loves manured soil: ...

(Venice, obsolete) Alternative form of articiocco


capegno

From capa, alternative form of cappa (name of various species of mollusk).

(Venice) a layer of half shells sometimes found at the bottom of lagoon basins


scantinare

it-verb

scantinàre (first-person singular present scantìno, first-person singular past historic scantinài, past participle scantinàto, auxiliary avére)

scantinàre (canonical)
scantìno (first-person present singular)
scantinài (first-person historic past singular)
scantinàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
scantinàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
scantinàndo (gerund)
scantinànte (participle present)
scantinàto (participle past)
scantìno (first-person indicative present singular)
scantìni (indicative present second-person singular)
scantìna (indicative present singular third-person)
scantiniàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
scantinàte (indicative plural present second-person)
scantìnano (indicative plural present third-person)
scantinàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
scantinàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
scantinàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
scantinavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
scantinavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
scantinàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
scantinài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
scantinàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
scantinò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
scantinàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
scantinàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
scantinàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
scantinerò (first-person future indicative singular)
scantinerài (future indicative second-person singular)
scantinerà (future indicative singular third-person)
scantinerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
scantineréte (future indicative plural second-person)
scantinerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
scantinerèi (conditional first-person singular)
scantinerésti (conditional second-person singular)
scantinerèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
scantinerébbe (conditional singular third-person)
scantinerémmo (conditional first-person plural)
scantineréste (conditional plural second-person)
scantinerèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
scantinerébbero (conditional plural third-person)
scantìni (first-person present singular subjunctive)
scantìni (present second-person singular subjunctive)
scantìni (present singular subjunctive third-person)
scantiniàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
scantiniàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
scantìnino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
scantinàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
scantinàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
scantinàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
scantinàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
scantinàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
scantinàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
scantìna (imperative second-person singular)
scantìni (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
scantiniàmo (first-person imperative plural)
scantinàte (imperative plural second-person)
scantìnino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
scantinàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
scantìni (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
scantiniàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
scantinàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
scantìnino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

(regional, Venice) to wobble (of teeth, furniture legs, etc.) [auxiliary avere]

(regional, Venice, uncommon) to stagger (of a person) [auxiliary avere]


stazio

Borrowed from Latin statiō (“outpost, picket”). Doublet of stazzo, stazzone, stagione, and stazione, of which the first three were inherited from Latin, while the last was borrowed.

doublet

(Venice) a place where gondolas are parked


sopraggastaldo

it-noun

sopraggastaldo m (plural sopraggastaldi)

sopraggastaldi (plural)
sopragastaldo (alternative)

(historical, Venice) a member of a special magistracy