cisalpine

1. 1.

   on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps

   “ancient cisalpine Gaul included an area south and east of the Alps”

   Synonymsultramontane

   Similarcismontane

Questions about cisalpine

What does cisalpine mean?

cisalpine means "on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps".

How many syllables are in cisalpine?

cisalpine has 3 syllables: ci-sal-pine. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for cisalpine?

Close synonyms include ultramontane. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cisalpine a common word?

cisalpine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.