Meaning
clip, excerpt, fragment
- a short extracted clip or segment of a film, video, or audio recording
- a broken-off piece, leftover piece, or fragment (of a film roll, cord, etc.)
In a sentence
Durante il telegiornale hanno mostrato un breve spezzone del documentario.
During the news broadcast they showed a short clip from the documentary.
Non trovi lo spezzone di quell'intervista su internet?
Can't you find the clip of that interview on the internet?
Abbiamo montato insieme diversi spezzoni d'archivio.
We edited together several archival excerpts.
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| spezzone | masculine · singular |
| spezzoni | masculine · plural |
Usage notes
- Very common in television, cinema, and media when talking about excerpts.
- Formed from 'pezzo' with the intensive 's-' and augmentative '-one'.