zibaldone

Italian

FWOTD – 25 April 2018

Etymology

Uncertain, but likely an alteration of zabaione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/d͡zi.balˈdo.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: zi‧bal‧dó‧ne

Noun

zibaldone m (plural zibaldoni)

1. (outdated) any dish made up of various and mixed ingredients; a concoction

   Synonym: intruglio

2. (by extension) a confusing mixture of diverse things or people; a hodgepodge

   Synonyms: ammasso, accozzaglia, guazzabuglio, marasma

3. (by extension, dated) a book containing writings collected in a scattered fashion

   Synonyms: brogliaccio, scartafaccio

   • 1940, Alessandro Perosa, “Una fonte secentesca dello Specimen del Bandini in un codice della Biblioteca Marucelliana”, in La Bibliofilia, number 42, page 231:

     Il codice McI. B I 9 è una specie di zibaldone di cose disparatissime scritte da varie mani; è costituito da molti fascicoli, fogli volanti, (alcuni anche a stampa) legati insieme verso la fine del 1700.

     The codex McI. B I 9 is a kind of zibaldone of disparate things written by various hands; it is made up of many leaflets, loose sheets (some also printed) bound together towards the end of the 1700s.

4. (by extension) a collection of loosely connected thoughts. (particularly after a notebook by Giacomo Leopardi)

Further reading

• Zibaldone (notebook by Giacomo Leopardi) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it