Materasso
NOUN [masculine]
Meaning and English translation 🔖
Mattress
🇬🇧 Large cushion on which to lie down to sleep and rest.
🇮🇹 Grande cuscino su cui adagiarsi per dormire e riposare.
| Masculine ♂️ | Feminine ♀️ | |
|---|---|---|
| Singular | il - un materasso | - |
| Plural | i - dei materassi | - |
Example sentences 💬
Il materasso è troppo duro. Avete un topper?
The mattress is too hard. Do you have a mattress topper?
Ho prenotato una stanza con materasso anallergico per il mio soggiorno.
I booked a room with a non-allergenic mattress for my stay.
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Idioms with materasso 🇮🇹
Materassino (per la piscina)
→ Pool float, air mattress
Ho comprato un materassino per la piscina per rilassarmi al sole.
I bought a pool float to relax in the sun.
Materassino (da campeggio)
→ Camping mat
Abbiamo portato dei materassini per dormire meglio in tenda.
We brought camping mats to sleep better in the tent.
Materassino (da yoga)
→ Yoga mat
Hai un materassino da yoga da prestarmi per la lezione di domani?
Do you have a yoga mat I can borrow for tomorrow's class?
NB: Tappetino da yoga is more common
Squadra materasso
→ The worst team
La prossima giornata giochiamo contro la squadra materasso del torneo.
The next day, we're playing against the worst team in the tournament.
Where does the word materasso come from? 🔎
Materasso comes from the Arabic maṭraḥ, which means "the place to throw things." The crusaders introduced this term into the Italian language after returning from the Middle East, where they had adopted the habit of sleeping on large cushions.
Did you know that... 🤓
Impress your italian friends with curious facts about Italy and its culture
Il materassaio - An Almost Disappeared Ancient Profession.
Until the late 1970s, when wool mattresses were still very common in homes, the figure of the “materassaio” was prominent. This person went from courtyard to courtyard with his cart and all the tools to fix mattresses.
His work consisted of re-stuffing the wool tufts and stitching the edge of the mattress with very long needles called saccurali needles.
Each year, the materassaio was called to perform mattress maintenance: the mattress was unstitched, the wool was removed, washed, laid out in the sun to dry, carded, and then put back into the mattress.
This process took a few days and spread annoying dust all over the house. His work was mainly carried out in the summer months to finish before the “tomato canning” period.
