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say it: pen-ti-MEN-toh
pentimento is a noun meaning "the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)". It is pronounced /ˌpɛntɪˈmɛntoʊ/ — pen-ti-MEN-toh. It carries one recorded sense.
the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pentimento come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.