toro

From Latin taurus, from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.


vacca

it-noun

vaccóna<g:f><q:also with figurative derogatory meaning>,vaccóne<g:m>

vaccàccia<qq:uncommon, often used figuratively as an insult>

vacca f (plural vacche, diminutive vaccarèlla or vaccherèlla or vacchétta or vacchìna or vacchicìna, augmentative vaccóna f or vaccóne m, pejorative vaccàccia, derogatory vaccùccia)

vacche (plural)
vaccarèlla (diminutive)
vaccherèlla (diminutive)
vacchétta (diminutive)
vacchìna (diminutive)
vacchicìna (diminutive)
vaccóna (augmentative feminine)
vaccóne (augmentative masculine)
vaccàccia (pejorative)
vaccùccia (derogatory)

→ Alemannic German: Wagge


oca

oca f (plural oche, diminutive ochina or ochétta, augmentative ocóna, pejorative ocàccia)

oche (plural)
ochina (diminutive)
ochétta (diminutive)
ocóna (augmentative)
ocàccia (pejorative)

Inherited from Late Latin auca, syncope of *avica, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Catalan, Spanish, Venetian, and Sicilian oca, French oie, Occitan auca, Romansch auca, ocha, Friulian ocje, Dalmatian jauca.

cog

(figurative) goose, silly goose, airhead (female)


bue

it-noun

bue m (plural buoi, derogatory buaccio (“dimwit, fool”), diminutive-derogatory buacciolo (“dimwit, fool”))

From Vulgar Latin *boem, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull, or ox”). Compare Spanish buey. Doublet of bove.


agnello

agnello m (plural agnelli, feminine agnella)

From Latin agnellus, diminutive of agnus. Cognates include Catalan anyell, French agneau and Romanian miel.

Egli ha raccontato un breve aneddoto su un americano che, in uno zoo di Mosca, aveva visto, con sua grande sorpresa, una gabbia che conteneva un lupo e un agnello.

He related a short anecdote about an American who, to his surprise, had seen a cage containing a wolf and a lamb in a Moscow zoo.


porco

it-adj

porco (feminine porca, masculine plural porci, feminine plural porche)

porca (feminine)
porci (masculine plural)
porche (feminine plural)

From Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos.

terrible, dirty, bad (used as a curse or swearword)


vitello

→ Ottoman Turkish: ودله (vedela)

From Latin vitellus. Compare French veau, Romanian vițel, Catalan vedella .


cinghiale

From an earlier *singhiale, *singhiare, from Vulgar Latin *singlāris, from syncopation of Latin singulāris [porcus]. Compare Catalan senglar, Occitan singlar, French sanglier, Friulian cenglâr. Doublet of singolare.


pecora

pecore (plural)
ariete (masculine)
montone (masculine)

From Latin pecora, neuter plural of pecus (“cattle”), from pecū, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock, domestic animals”).


cavallo

it-noun

cavallìno,cavallétto<q:only in specific meanings>

cavallo m (plural cavalli, feminine cavalla, diminutive cavallìno or cavallétto, augmentative cavallóne or cavallòtto, pejorative cavallàccio, endearing-derogatory cavallùccio)

cavalli (plural)
cavalla (feminine)
cavallìno (diminutive)
cavallétto (diminutive)
cavallóne (augmentative)
cavallòtto (augmentative)
cavallàccio (pejorative)

→ Alemannic German: Kawall

→ Greek: καβάλος (kaválos)

From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), of disputed origin. Compare Portuguese cavalo.


mucca

Uncertain, possibly a merging of muggire and vacca, or from Alemannic German Mugg. Compare English moo cow.


anatra selvatica

anatra selvatica f (plural anatre selvatiche)


maiale

maiale m (plural maiali, feminine maiala)

→? Maltese: majjal

From Latin maiālis, from the goddess Maia.

Un caso di salmonellosi in un maiale è inoltre stato annunciato.

In addition, a case of salmonellosis was reported in one pig.


bovino

it-adj

bovino (feminine bovina, masculine plural bovini, feminine plural bovine)

bovina (feminine)
bovini (masculine plural)
bovine (feminine plural)


anatra mandarina

it-noun

anatra mandarina f (plural anatre mandarine)


canapiglia

From canapa (“hemp”), for the greyish-whitish color of its feathers.

Mareca strepera
Mareca strepera#Translingual

Anas strepera
Anas strepera#Translingual

gadwall (Mareca strepera, syn. Anas strepera)


marzaiola

Anas querquedula
Anas querquedula#Translingual


tagua

pecari del Chaco
pecari del Chaco#Italian


cavalluccio

a traditional anise cookie from Siena typically consumed at Christmas


puledro

puledro m (plural puledri, feminine puledra)

From Vulgar Latin *pullētrus, from Latin pullus (“young animal”, whence Italian pollo), likely via a Gallo-Italic language, for expected polletro.

der

whence Italian <i class="Latn mention" lang="it">pollo</i>


muflone

→ Catalan: mufló

desctree

→ French: mouflon
→ English: mouflon
→ German: Mufflon

From Late Latin mufrō (“wild sheep”), related to Latin musimō (“wild sheep”), both probably of pre-Roman origin.


stallone

From Frankish *stallo. Compare French étalon.

stallion (male horse kept primarily as a stud)


cappone

From Vulgar Latin *cappō, *cappōnem, from Latin cāpō. Compare English capon, French chapon, Portuguese capão, Spanish capón.


redine

Originally the plural of archaic redina, from Early Medieval Latin retina, ultimately or directly from Latin retineō (“hold back”).


sferrare

it-verb

sferràre (first-person singular present sfèrro, first-person singular past historic sferrài, past participle sferràto, auxiliary avére)

sferràre (canonical)
sfèrro (first-person present singular)
sferrài (first-person historic past singular)
sferràto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
sferràre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
sferràndo (gerund)
sferrànte (participle present)
sferràto (participle past)
sfèrro (first-person indicative present singular)
sfèrri (indicative present second-person singular)
sfèrra (indicative present singular third-person)
sferriàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
sferràte (indicative plural present second-person)
sfèrrano (indicative plural present third-person)
sferràvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sferràvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sferràva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sferravàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sferravàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sferràvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sferrài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
sferràsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
sferrò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
sferràmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
sferràste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
sferràrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
sferrerò (first-person future indicative singular)
sferrerài (future indicative second-person singular)
sferrerà (future indicative singular third-person)
sferrerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
sferreréte (future indicative plural second-person)
sferrerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
sferrerèi (conditional first-person present singular)
sferrerésti (conditional present second-person singular)
sferrerèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
sferrerébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
sferrerémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
sferreréste (conditional plural present second-person)
sferrerèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
sferrerébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
sfèrri (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sfèrri (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sfèrri (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sferriàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
sferriàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
sfèrrino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sferràssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sferràssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sferràsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sferràssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sferràste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sferràssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sfèrra (imperative second-person singular)
sfèrri (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
sferriàmo (first-person imperative plural)
sferràte (imperative plural second-person)
sfèrrino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
sferràre (imperative negative second-person singular)
sfèrri (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
sferriàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
sferràte (imperative negative plural second-person)
sfèrrino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

From Vulgar Latin *exferrāre. By surface analysis, s- + ferro (“horseshoe”), ferri (“shackles”) + -are. Cognate with Sicilian sfirrari.

surf

(transitive, farriery) to unshoe (a horse)


sferra

From Vulgar Latin *exferra. By surface analysis, deverbal from sferrare (“to unshoe (a horse)”) + -a. Compare Neapolitan sferra and Sicilian sferra.

(farriery) exhausted horseshoe; the old horseshoe after it is removed from the hoof of a horse


ariete

Borrowed from Latin arietem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r-i-(e)t- (“certain domestic animal”).


briglia

Probably of Frankish origin, from Proto-Germanic *brigdilaz. Compare Sicilian brigghia.


morello

it-adj

morello (feminine morella, masculine plural morelli, feminine plural morelle)

morella (feminine)
morelli (masculine plural)
morelle (feminine plural)


cavallone

it-noun

cavallone m (plural cavalloni, feminine cavallona)

(informal, figurative, by extension) big or tall, but agile, person, typically a tall woman


montone

Inherited from Vulgar Latin multōnem, from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *molto-.


quattrocchi

quattrocchi m or f by sense (invariable)

From quattro (“four”) + occhi (“eyes”), as used in the expression a quattr'occhi (“in private”).

quattrocchi d'Islanda

Barrow's goldeneye (Bucephala islandica)

quattrocchi minore

Tra gli anatidi figurano il quattrocchi (Bucephala clangula), svernante in laguna in branchi di modesta entità, (...)

1995, Giovanni Caniato, Eugenio Turri, Michele Zanetti, La laguna di Venezia, Unesco, page 121:

Bucephala clangula
Bucephala clangula#Translingual

(ornithology, masculine only) a goldeneye, especially the common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)


vitellone

vitellone m (plural vitelloni, feminine vitellona)

From vitello (“calf”) + -one (augmentative suffix).


baio

it-adj

baio (feminine baia, masculine plural bai, feminine plural baie)

baia (feminine)
bai (masculine plural)
baie (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Old French bai, or Old Occitan, ultimately from Latin badius.


facocero

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek φακός (phakós, “lens”) + χοῖρος (khoîros, “pig”).


giumenta

Inherited from Latin iūmenta pl. Doublet of giumento. Documented since the 1250's. Also derivable from giumento + -a (forms feminine nouns).

female horse, donkey, or other beast of burden


suino

suino (feminine suina, masculine plural suini, feminine plural suine)

suina (feminine)
suini (masculine plural)
suine (feminine plural)


moriglione

Aythya ferina
Aythya ferina#Translingual


palafreno

From Late Latin paraverēdus (see there for more), possibly through Old Occitan palafré or by influence from freno (“bit, brake”).


alfana

From Spanish, from Arabic فَرَس (faras, “horse”). Compare alfiere.


bucefalo

(informal) nag, hack (old or broken-down horse)


agno

Borrowed from Latin agnus, from Proto-Italic *agʷnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷnós. Cognate with Albanian enjë, Czech jehně, Greek αμνός (amnós), Irish uan.


suinicolo

suinicolo (feminine suinicola, masculine plural suinicoli, feminine plural suinicole)

suinicola (feminine)
suinicoli (masculine plural)
suinicole (feminine plural)


tratturo

Borrowed from Neapolitan, from Latin tractōrius (“of or relating to drawing and hoisting”), from trahō, trahere (“to draw, hoist”), whence Italian trarre.

der

sheep track, commonly found in Southern Italy


chinea

Clipping of earlier acchinea, from Middle French haquenée, from Old French haquenee, from Middle English hakeney. More at English hackney.


birracchio

yearling bull (uncastrated one-year-old male calf)


ridenna

Borrowed from Sicilian, from Arabic رَدَّانَة (raddāna, “spindle”), derived from رَدَن (radan, “thread spun”).

Synonym of canapiglia (“gadwall (Mareca strepera)”)


pecari labiato

white-lipped peccary
white-lipped peccary

Tayassu pecari
Tayassu pecari#Translingual


anatra dal becco rosso

it-noun

anatra dal becco rosso f (plural anatre dal becco rosso)

Anas erythrorhyncha
Anas erythrorhyncha#Translingual


cordesco

cordesco m (plural cordeschi, feminine cordesca)

Ultimately from Latin chordus (“late-born”), through an unattested Vulgar Latin term *chordiscus. Compare also Portuguese cordeiro, Spanish cordero.


chianina

→ English: Chianina

→ French: chianina

From the name of the alluvial valley of central Italy Val di Chiana.

(zoology) Chianina (breed of beef cattle from Italy)


figlianda

Borrowed from Neapolitan. By surface analysis, figlio (“son”) + -anda.


sferrarsi

it-verb

sferràrsi (first-person singular present mi sfèrro, first-person singular past historic mi sferrài, past participle sferràto)

sferràrsi (canonical)
mi sfèrro (first-person present singular)
mi sferrài (first-person historic past singular)
sferràto (participle past)

(farriery, of a horse) to lose one's shoes


restare al palo

(horse racing) (of a horse) to refuse to move or start racing