maculato

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Doublet of macchiato. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ma.kuˈla.to/
  • Rhymes: -ato
  • Hyphenation: ma‧cu‧là‧to

Adjective

maculato (feminine maculata, masculine plural maculati, feminine plural maculate)

  1. (literary or zoology or fashion) spotted
    • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 31–33; 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:
      Ed ecco, quasi al cominciar de l'erta, ¶ una lonza leggera e presta molto, ¶ che di pel macolato era coverta; […]
      And lo! almost where the ascent began, a panther light and swift exceedingly, which with a spotted skin was covered o'er!

Further reading
  • maculato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

maculātō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of maculātus
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