campanile

/kæmpəˈniːleɪ/

campanile means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.

campanile is pronounced /kæmpəˈniːleɪ/.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian campanile (“bell tower, belfry”), from campana (“bell”) + -ile (suffix forming nouns indicating locations that host animals or objects). Campana is derived from Late Latin and Medieval Latin campāna (“large bell used in late classical or medieval church towers or steeples; tower for such a bell, belfry, campanile”), and then either: * traditionally regarded to be from Latin Campāna (“region of Campania, Italy”) (because bells were supposedly introduced in Christian services in Nola, a diocese of Campania, by Saint Paulinus (c. 354 – 431), though the story has been discredited), from Campānus (“relating to the region of Campania, Italy, or its inhabitants, Campanian”), from campus (“field, plain”) (from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”)) + -ānus (suffix me

name

A surname.

noun

A bell tower (especially one that is freestanding), often associated with a church or other public building, especially in Italy.“The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a campanile.”