What does spicchio in Italian mean?

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

The word spicchio in Italian means slice, wedge, segment, slice, garlic clove, clove of garlic, clove of garlic, spherical cap, spherical segment, patch of sunlight, splash of sunlight. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word spicchio

slice, wedge

sostantivo maschile (fetta di un cerchio)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Lo spicchio più grande del grafico a torta rappresenta il partito più popolare della nazione.
The largest slice of the pie chart represents the country's most popular party.

segment, slice

sostantivo maschile (fetta di un frutto) (citrus fruit)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Spremo sempre uno spicchio di limone sui calamari fritti per levarne il gusto di pesce.
I always squirt a slice of lemon on fried squid so as to remove the taste of fish.

garlic clove

clove of garlic

sostantivo maschile

clove of garlic

sostantivo maschile

spherical cap, spherical segment

patch of sunlight, splash of sunlight

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

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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.