stivale

Borrowed from Old French estival, of which the etymology is disputed: either from Medieval Latin aestivālis (“summerly”), in place of Classical Latin aestīvus (whence also Italian estivo), from aestās (“summer”), or from tībiālis (“tibial, of the tibia”), from tībia. Cognate with Sicilian stivala.

• IPA^(key): /stiˈva.le/^[1][2]

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• Homophone: Stivale
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: sti‧và‧le

stivale m (plural stivali)

1. boot

   Hypernyms: calzare, calzatura, scarpa

• → Greek: στιβάλι (stiváli), στιβάνι (stiváni)
• → Middle Low German: stevele, stovele
  • German Low German: Stevel, Stävel
    • → Afrikaans: stewel (or from German Stiefel)
  • → Old Norse: styfill
    • Danish: støvle
    • Faroese: stivli
    • Icelandic: stígvél
    • Norwegian: støvel
    • Old Swedish: støvel
      • Swedish: stövel
• → Old High German: stival

From stiva +‎ -le.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsti.va.le/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ivale
• Hyphenation: stì‧va‧le

stivale

1. compound of stiva, the second-person singular imperative form of stivare, with le

• levasti, svelati, valesti, velasti, velista, vestali