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nero antico

nero antico noun: a beautiful black marble found in fragments among Ancient Roman ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.

Noun

nero antico (uncountable)

  1. A beautiful black marble found in fragments among Ancient Roman ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.
    • A table of red granite, above which is a relief in nero antico on a ground of lapislazzuli […]1843, Jeremiah Donovan, Rome, Ancient and Modern: And Its Environs, volume 3, page 730

Origin of nero antico

Italian, literally "black ancient".

Questions about nero antico

What does nero antico mean?
Nero antico means a beautiful black marble found in fragments among Ancient Roman ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.
What part of speech is nero antico?
Nero antico is a noun.

Words near nero antico in the dictionary

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  2. Nernst lamp
  3. Nernst lamps
  4. Nernstian
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  6. nero antico
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  8. Nero Wolfe
  9. Nero's crown
  10. neroi
  11. Neroic

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