A handy word you will find yourself using all the time in Italian is abbastanza. It comes from the ancient form a (to) + bastanza (an antiquated derivative of bastare = to suffice). The doubling of the letter b can be attributed to a linguistic phenomenon called syntactic gemination. There are two predominant translations for abbastanza. The first is enough and the second is fairly / quite / … [Read more...] about Italian Word of the Day: Abbastanza (enough)