casino

→ English: casino

→ Ladino: gazino

→ Ottoman Turkish: غازینو (gazino)

Turkish: gazino

→ Portuguese: casino

→ Spanish: casino

From casa + -ino; cognate with Piedmontese casin.


bordello

English: bordello

Greek: μπορντέλο n (borntélo)

Maltese: burdell

From Old French bordel (“small hut, cabin; brothel”), diminutive of bord, from Medieval Latin bordellum, from Frankish *bord (“board”), from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥dʰ-o- (“board”), suffixed zero-grade form of *bʰer-edʰ- (“to cut”), suffixed form of *bʰer- (“to carve, cut, split, rub”).

der

(informal, slightly vulgar) a large quantity


prostituta

it-noun

prostituta f (plural prostitute, masculine prostituto, diminutive (uncommon, offensive) prostitutèlla)

prostitute (plural)
prostituto (masculine)
prostitutèlla (diminutive offensive uncommon)


bisessuale

bisessuale m or f by sense (plural bisessuali)

bisex

sexually attracted to persons of either sex


casa di tolleranza

casa di tolleranza f (plural case di tolleranza)

Calque of French maison de tolérance (literally “house of tolerance”).

calque

(euphemistic) (licensed) brothel, maison de tolérance


spagnola

(vulgar, slang, sexuality) tit fuck, titwank, titjob (mammary intercourse)


sveltina

Calque of English quickie, svelto (“quick”) + -ina (diminutive suffix).

af

Facciamo una sveltina?

Rick tiene d'occhio Bertis, legato alla sedia col nastro adesivo e disteso per terra a guardare i resti delle decorazioni natalizie sul soffitto. Bertis chiede a Rick, con voce rauca: «Allora ti sei fatto una sveltina pomeridiana, eh?».

2012, Douglas Coupland, Le ultime 5 ore, Isbn Edizioni, →ISBN, page 217:

(sexuality, vulgar, slang) quickie (rapid sex with no preliminaries)


masochista

it-noun

masochista m or f by sense (masculine plural masochisti, feminine plural masochiste)

masochisti (masculine plural)
masochiste (feminine plural)


prostituto

prostituto m (plural prostituti, feminine prostituta)

prostituti (plural)
prostituta (feminine)


poliamore

From poli- (“poly-”) + amore (“love”), calque of English polyamory.

(usually uncountable, neologism) polyamory


poliamoroso

it-adj

poliamoroso (feminine poliamorosa, masculine plural poliamorosi, feminine plural poliamorose)

poliamorosa (feminine)
poliamorosi (masculine plural)
poliamorose (feminine plural)

From poli- (“poly-”) + amoroso (“amorous, loving”) or poliamore (“polyamory”) + -oso (“-ous, -ful”), calque of English polyamorous.


preferenza sessuale

it-noun

preferenza sessuale f (plural preferenze sessuali)


orientamento sessuale

orientamento sessuale m (plural orientamenti sessuali)


bardassa

bardassa m or f by sense (masculine plural bardassi, feminine plural bardasse)

bardassi (masculine plural)
bardasse (feminine plural)

desctree

→ French: bardache
→ English: bardash, berdache
→ Portuguese: berdache

Borrowed from Arabic بَرْدَج (bardaj, “slave”).

bor+

(literary, derogatory) brat, kid (of either sex)


slut-shaming

Unadapted borrowing from English slut-shaming.


una botta e via

wham, bam, thank you ma'am
wham, bam, thank you ma'am

ridden hard and put away wet
ridden hard and put away wet

(sexuality) one-night stand, pump and dump, hit it and quit it, fuck and chuck, smash and dash, wham, bam, thank you ma'am, ridden hard and put away wet


taxi-girl

a nightclub hostess (paid to dance with, and entertain, customers)


ragazza squillo

it-noun

ragazza squillo f (plural ragazze squillo)


musmè

Borrowed from French mousmé, from Japanese 娘 (むすめ, musume, “daughter; girl”).

der

(historical) mousmé, term used to refer to the girls in Japanese brothels


vaginoplastica

it-noun

vaginoplastica f (plural vaginoplastiche)


umiliazione da sgualdrina

umiliazione da sgualdrina f (plural umiliazioni da sgualdrina)


stigma della puttana

stigma della puttana f (plural stigme della puttana)


ləi

tlb

(gender-neutral, LGBTQ, neologism, rare)

Coined by substituting the central vowel of lui and lei with the gender-neutral vowel ə. Compare French iel.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ləi.

(s)he, they (singular), gender-neutral third person singular pronoun (exclusively in writing)