tre

Inherited from Latin trēs. Compare Italian tre.


sole

Steva chiuvenno, po' è asciuto 'o sole.


aqua

Inherited from Latin aqua. Compare Italian acqua.


vino

wine (an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%)


sustantivo

Compare Italian sostantivo, Piedmontese sostantiv.


notte

Inherited from Latin noctem, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.


purchiacca

A dubious theory has it descend from Ancient Greek terms πῦρ (pûr) and κοῖλος (koîlos) with an approximate meaning of "fiery hole". Nevertheless, the true etymology lies in Latin portulāca (purslane), a plant that was commonly used to mitigate vaginal pain after childbirth.


pastiera

From pasta (“pasta, dough”) + -iera (“-er, -or”).


accidere

accidere (infinitive)
accidenno (gerund)
accidente (participle present)
acciduto (participle past)
accido (indicative present singular)
accide (indicative present second-person singular)
accide (indicative present singular third-person)
accidimmo (first-person indicative plural present)
accidite (indicative plural present second-person)
accidono (indicative plural present third-person)
accidevo (imperfect indicative singular)
accidive (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
accideva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
accidevamo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
accidiveve (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
accidevano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
accidette (indicative singular)
accidiste (indicative second-person singular)
accidette (indicative singular third-person)
accidettemo (first-person indicative plural)
accidisteve (indicative plural second-person)
accidetteno (indicative plural third-person)
accidettero (indicative plural third-person)
accidarraggio (future indicative singular)
accidarraje (future indicative second-person singular)
accidarrà (future indicative singular third-person)
accidarrammo (first-person future indicative plural)
accidarrate (future indicative plural second-person)
accidarranno (future indicative plural third-person)
accidarria (conditional indicative singular)
accidarrisse (conditional indicative second-person singular)
accidarria (conditional indicative singular third-person)
accidarriamo (conditional first-person indicative plural)
accidarrisseve (conditional indicative plural second-person)
accidarriano (conditional indicative plural third-person)
accidesse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
accidisse (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
accidesse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
accidessemo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
accidisseve (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
accidesseno (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
accide (imperative second-person singular)
accide (imperative singular third-person)
accidiamo (first-person imperative plural)
accidite (imperative plural second-person)
accidiano (imperative plural third-person)

Inherited from Latin occīdere, with the prefix adapted to a-.


fessa

Latin fissam, feminine participle of findere. Compare Sicilian fissa.


criscio

nap-adj

criscio (feminine singular criscia, plural crisce)

criscia (feminine singular)
crisce (plural)


tavuto

From Arabic تَابُوت (tābūt, “box, coffin”).

M'aggio accattato nu tavuto


tempesta

Mo, do vierno, 'e ttempeste/mo, n'aria 'e primmavera...


femmeniello

femmena (“woman”) + -iello (masculine diminutive suffix)

af

(derogatory, offensive) a male transvestite


pisto

From Late Latin pistus (“crushed”), from the Latin pīnsō (“to crush”).


polezzare

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *politiāre, derived from Latin polīre. Compare Sicilian pulizziari.


zecchiare

Borrowed from Spanish cecear, of onomatopoeic origin.

Zecchejava nu marvizzo.

(intransitive) to chirp, imitate a birdcall to attract birds (especially using a z sound)


janco

nap-adj

janco (feminine singular janca, plural janche)

janca (feminine singular)
janche (plural)

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus.


scorciare

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *excurtiāre.


viecchio

nap-adj

viecchio (feminine singular vecchia, masculine plural viecchie, feminine plural vecchie)

vecchia (feminine singular)
viecchie (masculine plural)
vecchie (feminine plural)

Inherited from Late Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus.


nfocato

nfocato (feminine singular nfocata, plural nfocate)

nfocata (feminine singular)
nfocate (plural)


uosso

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.


femmenile

Latin fēminīnus, with change of suffix (cfr. Italian femminile). Equivalent to femmena (“woman”) + -ile.


gennere

Borrowed from Italian genere, itself borrowed from Latin generis.


Peppiniello

a diminutive of the male given name Giuseppe


scetavajasse

Literally “maid-waker”: from sceta (“wake up”, imperative of scetà) + vajasse (“maids, female servants”, plural of vajassa).

affix

imperative of <i class="Latn mention" lang="nap">scetà</i>

plural of <i class="Latn mention" lang="nap">vajassa</i>

(music) scetavajasse (Neapolitan percussion instrument)


Jaso

Inherited from Latin Blasius. Compare Italian Biagio.

a male given name, equivalent to English Blaise or French Blaise


ummenone

uommene (“men”, plural of ommo) + -one (augmentative suffix)

af

plural of <i class="Latn mention" lang="nap">ommo</i>


appocundria

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ὑποχονδριακός (hupokhondriakós, “of the region between the ribs and navel”).

der

ὑποχονδριακός

Appocundria me scoppia / Ogne minuto ‘mpietto / Peccè passanno forte / Haje sconcecato ‘o lietto / Appocundria ‘e chi è sazio / E dice ca è diuno / Appocundria ‘e nisciuno / Appocundria ‘e nisciuno

1980, Pino Daniele (lyrics and music), “Appocundria”, in Nero a metà:


miedeco

[ˈmiːə̆dəkə]


jodece

[ˈjoːrət͡ʃə]

Inherited from Latin iūdicem.
More information
|The expected outcome of the stressed vowel would have been /u/. The shift to /o/ resulted from a sort of reverse-metaphony, whereby the plural judece was taken as implying a singular with /o/, on the pattern of nouns of metaphonic alternations such as ammore (“love”) ⇔ ammure (“loves”). This had the effect of introducing a singular-plural distinction: judece sg or pl → jodece sg, judece pl.


petaccia

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pitaccium, variant of Latin pittacium.