Monday Word: Campanile

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

campanile [ kam-puh-nee-lee, -neel; Italian kahm-pah-nee-le]

noun:

1. a bell tower, especially one freestanding from the body of a church.

examples
1. The campanile is three arched on all four sides, whereas the one in the picture is two arched.
Contest: Identify This Spot 2004
2. Mamma's lunch was spoiled because, in pronouncing "campanile" for the first time, she rhymed it with the river Nile, and realized what she had done when some one else soon after inadvertently said it in the right way. My Friend the Chauffeur Frederic [Illustrator] Lowenheim 1901
3. Its slender campanile looms strikingly over the surrounding neighborhood.
Catholic Cleveland: Historic Church Saved, But Others Still in Danger 2009

origin
1630–40; < Italian, equivalent to campan ( a ) bell (< Late Latin, probably noun use of Latin Campāna, feminine singular or neuter plural of Campānus of Campania, reputed to be a source of high-quality bronze casting in antiquity) + -ile locative suffix (< Latin -īle )

Campanile, Sant' Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, Italy, 6th century

Comments

[prettygoodword]

I love this word.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yay!🎉

[med_cat]

A cool word :)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!