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prettygoodwordcampanile (kam-peh-NEE-lee or kam-peh-NEEL) - n., a bell-tower, especially a freestanding one associated with a church or other public building.
Leaning Tower of Pisa, for example, though usually I think of St. Mark's in Venice -- Wikipedia has, of course, a list. Borrowed in the 1630s, either directly or via French, from Italian, from campana, bell, + -ile, locative suffix. Campana seems to have come (via Late Latin mangling) from Campania, the region around Naples, because its bronze was of high quality in antiquity.
---L.
Leaning Tower of Pisa, for example, though usually I think of St. Mark's in Venice -- Wikipedia has, of course, a list. Borrowed in the 1630s, either directly or via French, from Italian, from campana, bell, + -ile, locative suffix. Campana seems to have come (via Late Latin mangling) from Campania, the region around Naples, because its bronze was of high quality in antiquity.
---L.
