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Linguistic Curiosities in Italian Lexicon is a hard crossword puzzle with 16 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
Linguistic Curiosities in Italian Lexicon
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Across
- 1. Study of roots where words find their ancient origin (10)
- 2. Grammatical role that affirms or describes predicates (10)
- 3. Giving breath to absent, inanimate entity’s voice (9)
- 6. Phoneme science, smallest sound unit’s domain (8)
- 10. Figure combining opposites, sharp paradox displayed (7)
- 13. Repetition at sentence start, rhetorical echo (7)
- 15. Classical vessel that holds ancient words’ weight (6)
Down
- 4. Mood for uncertainty, subjunctive tense’s realm (11)
- 5. Formal letter form, classic communication in Italian lore (8)
- 7. A whispered breath, silent but expressive in tone (8)
- 8. Debate over words, transactional language art (9)
- 9. Local speech variant, often from region’s heart (8)
- 11. Structuring phrase chains in high Italian discourse (8)
- 12. Imaginative bridge from literal to poetic senses (8)
- 14. Words close in sound, yet meanings split like forks (8)
- 16. Loquacious attitude, like some professors’ endless chatter (7)
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