🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

sistema di irrigazione

Pronunciation / Transliteration: siˈstema di ir.ri.ɡaˈtjo.ne

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Watering system/ˈwɔː.tər.ɪŋ ˈsɪs.təm/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il sistema di irrigazione si attiva ogni mattina all'alba."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An organized network of equipment, pipes, and emitters designed to deliver water automatically or semi-automatically to plants, crops, or lawns.

    "We installed an efficient drip watering system to keep the vegetable garden hydrated during the dry summer months."
  2. 2

    A mechanical or automated setup used to supply drinking water to livestock or captive animals.

    "The modern barn features an automated watering system that ensures the cattle always have access to fresh water."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'watering', derived from the Old English 'wæterian' (to supply with water, from Proto-Germanic *watōnan), and 'system', originating from the Late Latin 'systema', from the Greek 'systēma' (an organized whole). Together, the compound phrase evolved in modern agricultural and horticultural contexts to describe engineered networks for automated irrigation.

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