presentazione

presentation, introduction

noun preh-zen-tah-TSYOH-neh Less Common

Origin: From Latin praesentatio, from praesent-, stem of praesens, 'present'.

Also means

submission, filing

Usage Note

Presentazione covers both a formal presentation (a slide deck, a product launch) and the social act of introducing people to one another. In bureaucratic Italian it also means the submission or filing of documents — presentazione della domanda means 'submission of the application', a usage that can confuse beginners.

Examples

"La presentazione del progetto è durata un'ora."

Natural Translation

The project presentation lasted an hour.

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