campanile

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a bell tower, especially a freestanding Italian bell tower beside a church or public building

   Midnight sounded from every campanile in the valley.

Borrowed from Italian campanile, from campana, 'bell,' plus -ile, a suffix forming names of places that hold something. Campana is the Medieval Latin word for a large church bell.

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