Italian word of the day
| Pronunciation | |
| English translation | Pimple |
| Origin | From the Latin word verrūca, “wart”, and rufŭlus, “reddish” |
Different forms of brufolo
Like most nouns in Italian, brufolo has two articles (definite or indefinite articles) and two numbers (singular or plural).
Un brufolo
A pimple
Dei brufoli
Some pimples
Il brufolo
The pimple
I brufoli
The pimples
Examples
| Giovanni si è svegliato con un brufolo proprio sul naso. | Giovanni woke up with a pimple right on his nose. |
| Laura si è lamentata di un brufolo doloroso sul mento. | Laura complained about a painful pimple on her chin. |
| Quando Federico vide il brufolo, decise di non toccarlo per evitare cicatrici. | When Federico saw the pimple, he decided not to touch it to avoid scarring. |
Related words
You can squeeze pimples, schiacciare i brufoli, and try to cover them, coprire i brufoli. For that purpose, you might use a correttore, a concealer.
| Ho coperto il brufolo con il correttore prima di uscire. | I covered the pimple with concealer before going out. |
People, usually teenagers, who constantly have many pimples on their face are said to suffer from acne (the word is the same in both Italian and English). A more colloquial synonym for brufolo in Italian is foruncolo, which translates to “boil, foruncle” and comes from foro, “hole”, literally meaning “little hole”.
| Ti è spuntato un foruncolo sulla fronte. | A pimple has sprouted on your forehead. |
Blackheads are called punti neri on a daily basis (“black dots”), but they are formally called comedoni.
| Questa crema è molto pesante e mi causa la comparsa di punti neri. | This cream is very heavy and causes me to get blackheads. |
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