zeppa

Noun

1. (feminine) a wedge-shaped piece of wood
2. (feminine) in printing, a small piece of lead used as a spacer or a brief article inserted to fill a page
3. (feminine) a type of word-game
4. (feminine) a platform shoe

Adj

feminine singular of zeppo

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of zeppare:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of zeppare:

Hyphenated as

zép‧pa

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡zep.pa/

Etymology

Borrowed from Lombardic *zippa, a late borrowing from Latin cippus or alteration of the earlier West Germanic *kippa. Compare dialectal German Kipfe (“axe, stave”), English chip, Dutch kip (“plow-beam”).

Concepts

wedge

stop

🛑

chock

platform

shim

chopine

Synonyms

cuneo

fermo

bietta