cugnu

From Latin cuneus. Compare Galician cuño, Portuguese cunho and cunha, Spanish cuño and cuña, Italian cuneo and conio.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ɲu/ (Standard)
• Hyphenation: cù‧gnu

cugnu m (plural cugni or cugna)

1. A wedge
2. A chock (for wheel)
3. (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
4. (topography) part of a mountainous relief surrounded by the ditches of a canyon; hill

   Synonym: cozzu, similar to Synonym: serra

   Stamu jennu ô cugnu di Prita.

   We are going to Prita hill.

   1. (by association) an extra-urban road situated over that mountainous or hilly stretch
5. One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.

   Cci u 'zziccàssitu nu cugnu sutta â porta? Àvi ca cci sta susciannu ventu di sutta.

   Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.

6. (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
7. One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
8. Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
   1. (phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
   2. (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
   3. (music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
9. (finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a cugnu ca acchiana) or a downward trend in prices (a cugnu ca cala).

• → Italian: cugno, Cugno