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campanile

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
20
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/kæmpəˈniːleɪ/
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/kæmpəˈniːleɪ/ · /ˈkæmpənɪl/ · /-aɪl/ · /ˌkæmpəˈnili/ · /kæmpəˈniːli/

Definition of campanile

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A bell tower (especially one that is freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy.
    “The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a campanile.”
    “There was no doubt as to the direction, with the campanile of the duomo as a beacon. For a quarter of a mile the road is straight and narrow; then it broadens into an open space and Castel Franco appears.”
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noun

  1. A bell tower (especially one that is freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy.
    “The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a campanile.”
    “There was no doubt as to the direction, with the campanile of the duomo as a beacon. For a quarter of a mile the road is straight and narrow; then it broadens into an open space and Castel Franco appears.”

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian campanile (“bell tower, belfry”), from campana (“bell”) + -ile (suffix forming nouns indicating locations that host animals or objects). Campana is derived from Late Latin and Medieval…

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Borrowed from Italian campanile (“bell tower, belfry”), from campana (“bell”) + -ile (suffix forming nouns indicating locations that host animals or objects). Campana is derived from Late Latin and Medieval Latin campāna (“large bell used in late classical or medieval church towers or steeples; tower for such a bell, belfry, campanile”), and then either: * traditionally regarded to be from Latin Campāna (“region of Campania, Italy”) (because bells were supposedly introduced in Christian services in Nola, a diocese of Campania, by Saint Paulinus (c. 354 – 431), though the story has been discredited), from Campānus (“relating to the region of Campania, Italy, or its inhabitants, Campanian”), from campus (“field, plain”) (from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives, which are sometimes used as nouns); or * from Ancient Greek καπάνη (kapánē, “felt helmet”) (apparently because of the similarity in shape). The plural form campanili is derived from Italian campanili.

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