Italian to English Dictionary (Dizionario Italiano-Inglese)

Croesus

A very rich person; a millionaire or billionaire of legendary proportions.

Crown-and-anchor

A traditional gambling game played with three dice, featuring symbols including a crown, an anchor, a spade, a club, a heart, and a diamond.

Crural

Relating to the leg, or more specifically to the thigh.

Crypto-Jew

A Jew who practices their religion in secret, often due to fear of persecution.

Cultural cringe

An internalized inferiority complex that causes people in a specific country or culture to dismiss their own local cultural products as inferior to those of other cultures.

Cupidity

Inordinate or excessive desire for wealth; greed or avarice.

Curiosa

A collection of curious, rare, or unconventional items, particularly books or writings dealing with esoteric, unusual, or erotic subjects.

Currier

A person who dresses and colors tanned leather to prepare it for use in manufacturing.

Cuspidate

Having a pointed or tapering shape.

Cynolatry

The worship of dogs, or the attribution of sacred or divine qualities to canines.

Cynosure

A person or thing that is the center of attention or admiration.

Cythera

An island in the Ionian Sea, traditionally regarded in Greek mythology as the birthplace of Aphrodite.