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Italian words for tools
I think it's useful to look at Treccani's definition of each term to find out the subtle differencies (if there are any).
Starting with attrezzo, Treccani says:
attrézzo s. m. [dal fr. attraits, part....
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Italian words for tools
This is a really hard question with no simple answer, mainly because of the degree of heterogeneity of word usage that one can find in spoken Italian among different regions. I myself am biased, ...
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List of Italian proper names and common diminutives
You can find here a list of Italian proper names (in Italian) where you can find some information about etymology and meaning.
Many of them come form history, literature, or from philosophers, ...
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List of Italian proper names and common diminutives
There are indeed such Wiktionary pages, though they are not exhaustive and do not contain much further information:
Wiktionary: Italian male given names (830)
Wiktionary: Italian diminutives of male ...
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Database parole italiane
Di recente ho avuto anch'io la stessa necessità e ho provato a generarne uno a partire da alcuni già noti, fra cui quello che hai menzionato, e usando lo spell-checker di MS Word come "filtro&...
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Cross-language equivalents of Italian proper names
TL; DR: Such a website is unrealistic, because the relationship between names in different languages are way to messy for it to be feasible.
Name correspondence between languages is always flawed and ...
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