What does ferro in Italian mean?

What is the meaning of the word ferro in Italian? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use ferro in Italian.

The word ferro in Italian means iron, tool, implement, must, shoe, iron, flatiron, flat iron, shaped like a horseshoe, Strike while the iron is hot, Seize the day, Carpe Diem, strike the iron while it's hot, on sure ground, free and clear, sitting pretty, arm wrestling, Popeye, , an iron hand in a velvet glove, iron fist in a velvet glove, Iron Curtain, be ironclad, wrought iron, surgical instrument, knitting needle, knitting pin, rim of the basket in basketball, horseshoe, wire, metal wire, metal wire, wrought-iron bed, perfect logic, impeccable logic, ravage, devastate, destroy, steel wool, iron fist, sbd's protege, knock on wood, an iron generation, use an iron fist. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word ferro

iron

sostantivo maschile (elemento chimico)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Il cioccolato è ricco di ferro.
Chocolate is rich in iron.

tool, implement

sostantivo maschile (tipo di metallo)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Una recinzione di ferro divideva le due proprietà.
An iron fence divided the two properties.

must

sostantivo maschile (figurato (indispensabile)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
La bellezza è un ferro del mestiere di attrice.
For actresses, beauty is a must of the trade.

shoe

verbo transitivo o transitivo pronominale (applicare oggetti di ferro) (put a horseshoe on a horse)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
Il mio bisnonno ferrava i cavalli da solo.

iron, flatiron, flat iron

sostantivo maschile (attrezzo per stirare)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

shaped like a horseshoe

Strike while the iron is hot, Seize the day, Carpe Diem

(idiomatic expression)

strike the iron while it's hot

on sure ground, free and clear, sitting pretty

(expression: Prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, or other phrase or expression--for example, "behind the times," "on your own.")

arm wrestling

sostantivo maschile (sport)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Paolo è un campione di braccio di ferro.

Popeye

sostantivo maschile (personaggio dei cartoni animati)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

an iron hand in a velvet glove, iron fist in a velvet glove

Iron Curtain

sostantivo femminile (figurato, storico (Europa: divisione tra est e ovest) (historical)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

be ironclad

wrought iron

sostantivo maschile (materiale per costruzioni)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

surgical instrument

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

knitting needle, knitting pin

sostantivo maschile

rim of the basket in basketball

(literally)

horseshoe

sostantivo maschile (fissato allo zoccolo del cavallo)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

wire, metal wire

metal wire

sostantivo maschile (oggetto da ferramenta)

wrought-iron bed

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Ho sempre sognato un letto in ferro battuto per la mia stanza.

perfect logic, impeccable logic

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

ravage, devastate, destroy

(war)

steel wool

iron fist

sbd's protege

knock on wood

(figurative)

Fra un mese compio novant'anni, toccando ferro.

an iron generation

(figurative)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

use an iron fist

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Italian (italiano) is a Romance language and is spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. Italian uses the Latin alphabet. The letters J, K, W, X and Y do not exist in the standard Italian alphabet, but they still appear in loanwords from Italian. Italian is the second most widely spoken in the European Union with 67 million speakers (15% of the EU population) and it is spoken as a second language by 13.4 million EU citizens (3%). Italian is the principal working language of the Holy See, serving as the lingua franca in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. An important event that helped to the spread of Italian was Napoleon's conquest and occupation of Italy in the early 19th century. This conquest spurred the unification of Italy several decades later and pushed the language of the Italian language. Italian became a language used not only among secretaries, aristocrats and the Italian courts, but also by the bourgeoisie.