bustrofedico

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βουστροφηδόν (boustrophēdón, adverb, literally “turning like an ox”), in reference to the back-and-forth course traced by boustrophedon text resembling the path taken by an ox ploughing a field.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bus.troˈfɛ.di.ko/[1][2][3]
  • Rhymes: -ɛdiko
  • Hyphenation: bu‧stro‧fè‧di‧co

Adjective

bustrofedico (feminine bustrofedica, masculine plural bustrofedici, feminine plural bustrofediche)

  1. (epigraphy) boustrophedonic (written as a boustrophedon, such that the text directionality alternates on each line, resulting in a continuous stream of characters spanning multiple lines)

References

  1. ^ bustrofedico in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  2. ^ bustrofedico in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  3. ^ Bustrofèdico in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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