statolder

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch stadhouder (literally “city holder”), calqued from Medieval Latin locum tenēns. Compare luogotenente.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /staˈtɔl.der/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlder
  • Hyphenation: sta‧tòl‧der

Noun

statolder m (invariable)

  1. (historical) stadtholder (chief magistrate of the Dutch Republic)

Derived terms
  • statolderato

Further reading
  • statolder in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • statolder in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • Nicola Zingarelli (2018) Mario Cannella, Beata Lazzarini, editors, lo Zingarelli 2018 – Vocabolario della lingua italiana (in Italian), 12th edition, Zanichelli, →ISBN, page 2289
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