Cacioppo
Cacioppo proper noun: a surname from Italian.
Proper noun
Cacioppo (plural Cacioppos)
- A surname from Italian.
- Back in the mid-’90s, when Cacioppo was at Ohio State University (he is now at the University of Chicago), he and his colleagues sorted undergraduates into three groups—the non-lonely, the sort-of-sometimes lonely, and the lonely.2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2015
Forms of Cacioppo
| plural | Cacioppos |
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Origin of Cacioppo
Borrowed from Italian Cacioppo.
Questions about Cacioppo
- What does Cacioppo mean?
- Cacioppo means a surname from Italian.
- What part of speech is Cacioppo?
- Cacioppo is a proper noun.
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