cugnu
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Sicilian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin cuneus. Compare Galician cuño, Portuguese cunho and cunha, Spanish cuño and cuña, Italian cuneo and conio.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cugnu m (plural cugni or cugna)
- A wedge
- A chock (for wheel)
- (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- (topography) part of a mountainous relief surrounded by the ditches of a canyon; hill
- (by association) an extra-urban road situated over that mountainous or hilly stretch
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- Cci u 'zziccàssitu nu cugnu sutta â porta? Àvi ca cci sta susciannu ventu di sutta.
- Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
- (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
- (phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- (music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- (finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a cugnu ca acchiana) or a downward trend in prices (a cugnu ca cala).