🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Controllato

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kontrollato

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Controlled/kənˈtroʊld/
adjectiveverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #950 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"L'ambiente controllato del laboratorio ha garantito risultati accurati."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Regulated or restrained in some way.

    "The controlled environment of the laboratory ensured accurate results."
As verb
  1. 1

    Past tense of control; to have exercised authority or influence over something.

    "She controlled the situation with remarkable skill."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Middle English word 'controlle', stemming from the Anglo-Norman 'contrerole', meaning a duplicate register used to check accounts. Over time, the meaning evolved from maintaining a check or restraint on records to exerting direct influence, regulation, or restraint over behavior, processes, or goods.

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