What does prestito in Italian mean?

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

The word prestito in Italian means loan, loan word, calque, lend something to someone, on loan, on loan, get a loan of , take a loan of , get on loan, borrow from, borrow, unsecured loans, bond loan, loan buyback, public loan, government loan. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word prestito

loan

sostantivo maschile (cessione temporanea)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Non fidarti mai di chi ti chiede un prestito di denaro.
Never trust people who ask for a money loan.

loan word, calque

sostantivo maschile (parola straniera) (linguistics)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
L'italiano contiene ormai tanti prestiti dall'inglese.
Italian has borrowed a lot of loan words from English.

lend something to someone

verbo transitivo o transitivo pronominale (prestare [qlcs])

on loan

locuzione aggettivale (cessione temporanea)

on loan

locuzione avverbiale (cessione temporanea)

get a loan of , take a loan of , get on loan, borrow from

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")

borrow

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
Presi in prestito cento euro dal portafoglio di mia mamma.
I borrowed 100 euros from my mum's purse.

unsecured loans

(student loans, for example)

bond loan

(finance)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Il consulente mi spiegò i dettagli del prestito obbligazionario.

loan buyback

(finance)

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

public loan, government loan

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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.