B2🔤 Letters I & L
Italian word
incolume
unharmed, safe and sound
Looks like
column (phonetically)
a vertical pillar; a newspaper column
⚠️ The trap
'Incolume' = safe and sound / unharmed. Nothing to do with 'column' (= colonna in Italian). 'Uscire incolume' = 'to come out unscathed'. A useful word that has no simple English cognate.
To say "a vertical pillar; a newspaper column" in Italian:
incolume (safe and sound); colonna (column)
"incolume" in English means:
unharmed, safe and sound
Example
"È uscito incolume dall'incidente."
"He came out of the accident unharmed."
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