vetro

From Latin vitrum, from Proto-Italic *wedrom, from Proto-Indo-European *wedro- (“water-like”), derived from the root *wed- (“water”).
Cognate with French verre, Portuguese vidro, Spanish vidrio

• IPA^(key): /ˈve.tro/, [ˈveːt̪r̺o]
• Rhymes: -etro
• Stress: vétro
• Hyphenation: ve‧tro

vetro m (plural vetri)

1. glass (transparent material)
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXXIV, lines 10–12, page 506:

     Già era, e con paura il metto in metro, ¶ là dove l'ombre tutte eran coperte, ¶ e trasparien come festuca in vetro.

     Now was I, and with fear in verse I put it, there where the shades were wholly covered up, and glimmered through like unto straws in glass.

• cristallo

• torve, verto