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pentapartito

five-party coalition

noun pen-tah-par-TEE-toh Less Common
People & Society Politics

Origin: From Greek penta- (five) + Italian partito (party).

Usage Note

Pentapartito refers specifically to the Italian governing coalition of five parties (DC, PSI, PSDI, PRI, PLI) that dominated Italian politics from the 1980s until the early 1990s. It is largely a historical term tied to that era of the First Republic and is rarely used outside that political context.

Examples

"Il pentapartito governò l'Italia per anni."

Natural Translation

The five-party coalition governed Italy for years.

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