voi

Italian: Lo Voi (from “lu voi”)

From Vulgar Latin *boem, from Latin bōs, bovem. Compare Italian bue.


corda

From Latin chorda (“cord”), from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”).


za

From Late Latin thia, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).


panza

From Latin pantex, panticem, probably through Spanish panza or Occitan pança.


piru

Inherited from Latin pirus (“pear tree”) and pirum (“pear”).


chica

From Medieval Latin plica, a derivative of Classical Latin plicō (“fold, bend or flex; roll up”). Compare Italian plica.

der

Macari tu t'a-ritrovi a chica simiana ntî parma dî manu?!

Do you also find the simian line on your hands?


capa

From older capu, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.


ossu

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


pilu

→ Italian: pilu, pilo, pelo

tira cchiussai nu pilu di sticchiu ca nu carru di voi

A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.

I pila nterni si tròvanu nnô stilu dû ciuri dû gigghiu larunchiu giallu

Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily.

(botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.

Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.

(zoology) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

O cû pilu o senza pilu, rapi i cosci ca tâ nfilu.

Either with hair or without hair, open your thighs so I will fuck you.

(vulgar, singular only) Hair of the genitals.

(vulgar, by extension) A sexual intercourse

Mi nni vaju a pilu

A mìa mi piaci u pilu

(vulgar, metonymically, singular only) A sexual partner, especially an occasional and unstable one; the reference is to the area of the genitals, covered with hair (regardless of their actual presence or not).


coscia

→ Maltese: koxxa

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

o cû pilu o senza pilu rapi i cosci ca tâ nfilu


denti

Inherited from Latin dēns, dentem. Cognate with Italian dente.


minna

→ Italian: minna (regional)

Uncertain. It should derive from a possibile earlier *minda or *mēnda. Compare, for more, minchia.

Mimma s'a-ritrova 'n paru di minni di chiḍḍi a nùmmiru unu.
Mimma got such grade-a tits.

(anatomy, colloquial, mostly plural) tit, breast


ricchi

Inherited from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula.


cori

From Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n. Compare Italian cuore.


pezza

→ Maltese: biċċa

In full: pezza di la varva

patch (small piece of cloth sewed to a piece of clothing to cover a hole)


nasca

From Latin nasica, from nāsus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s-.


rini

Chiddhi d' arredi a li so' cosci stisi, / e la cuda ficcannu ntra ddhi ddui / supra li rini, 'llungannula tisi.

1904, Dante Alighieri, Tommaso Cannizzaro, La commedia di Dante Alighieri: Prima traduzione in dialetto siciliano, page 98, lines 55–57:

The hindermost it stretched upon his thighs, / And put its tail through in between the two, / And up behind along the reins [kidneys] outspread it. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy/Inferno/Canto_XXV


pusu

From Latin pulsus. Compare Italian polso and English pulse.


serpi

From Vulgar Latin *serpem, likely from the Latin nominative serpens (“a snake”). Compare Italian serpe.


cicatrici

→ Maltese: ċikatriċi

From Latin cicātrīx, cicātrīcis (“scar”). Compare Italian cicatrice.

Poi dissi: ancora di stu focu ardenti ¶ Li cicatrici lu miu cori porta[…].

c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter VI, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 60:

Then he said: my heart still bears the scars of this burning fire.


fauci

(anatomy) jaws (of an animal), mouth (of a human)


ràdica

From Vulgar Latin *rādica, from Latin rādīcula, diminutive of rādīx (“root”). Compare Italian radica and Sardinian rádica.

(botany) ipecacuanha (Carapichea ipecacuanha)


mustazzu

From Early Medieval Latin mustācium, ultimately from Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax, “upper lip”).


facci

Ultimately inherited from Latin faciēs. The regular result for a Sicilian noun deriving from the fifth Latin declension is generally a regularization on the declension of the first through a process of vulgarization (cf. ràdica). The expected output should have been, therefore, a reconstructed *fazza (passing first from the intermediate forms fakies > fakia > fakja). The absence of〈-a〉as a typical feminine ending and the irregular palatalization of the nexus -VkjV- lead instead towards the linguistic influence of an Old French or Norman stratum. Compare accia, sacciu, siccia for similiar morphological developments into Sicilian. Cognate with Italian faccia, Catalan faç, Sardinian facci, Galician and Portuguese face. That, along with the apparent absence—at least in the 1920's—of a Sicilian variant with final /-a/ (again per the AIS), makes a borrowing from Italian faccia unlikely.


occhiu

From Vulgar Latin oclus, from Latin oculus. Compare Italian occhio.

uocciu

palatalized and, possibly, diphthongized


ovu

Inherited from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum n. Compare Italian uovo.
The plural l'ova reflects a continuation of the Latin plural with /-a/,
like many other Sicilian and Old Italian words.
These, in Italian, are all declined as feminine plurals, even though they were masculine in the singular.
Compare Italian le uova.

unni càcanu i palummi e fannu l'ova tunni tunni

(zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.

(biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.


vucca

"Rapi a vucca e fai 'aah'" dissi u dutturi.

"Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.

(anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.


jitu

From the apheresis of Latin digitus (“finger”).


fìcatu

From Late Latin fīcātum (“liver”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver”).


mèusa

Compare Italian milza, Catalan melsa. Ultimately of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *miltiją.


cuda

From Vulgar Latin cōda, variant of Latin cauda.


sangu

From Late Latin sangu(em), alteration of Classical Latin sanguinem.


fogghia

From Late Latin folia, from the plural of Latin folium.


vrazzu

From Vulgar Latin braccium, from Latin bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).
Compare French bras, Italian braccio, Portuguese braço, Spanish brazo,


triaca

From Latin theriaca, from Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “antidote”) feminine form of θηριακός (thēriakós, “concerning venomous beasts”), from θήρ (thḗr, “beast”).

der

(historical, pharmacology) theriac, a supposed universal antidote against poison, especially snake venom; specifically, one such developed in the 1st century as an improvement on mithridate.


scidda

From Late Latin ascella or Vulgar Latin *axella, from Latin axilla (“armpit”).


ugna

From Vulgar Latin *ungla, from Latin ungula (“nail”) or maybe from Spanish uña (“nail”).


ciriveddu

From Latin cerebellum (“brain”), diminutive of cerebrum.


disiu

From Early Medieval Latin dēsideus, from Latin dēsidia (“sloth, debauchery”).


sonnu

From Latin somnus (“sleep”), from Proto-Italic *swepnos, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos. Compare Portuguese sono, Italian sonno (“sleep”) and Spanish sueño (“sleep”).

suennu

Diphtongization, most of the south-eastern metaphonetic Sicilian dialects

sunnu

vocalic hypercorrection, most of the central metaphonetic Sicilian dialects


capu

From Vulgar Latin capus, masculinization of Latin caput. Cfr. capa.


cucuzza longa

(botany) Cucurbita moschata var. serpente di Sicilia


nicchiu

Unknown, maybe from Italian nicchio (“shell”).


culu

(slang, vulgar, anatomy) ass, arse, butt, buttocks, bottom


mulu

(zoology) mule (hybrid offspring from a male donkey and a female horse)


porcu

Inherited from Latin porcus. Cognate with Italian and Portuguese porco and Corsican and Sardinian porcu.


fìmmina

→ Italian: fèmmina

From Latin fēmina, from Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁m̥h₁néh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”), the feminine mediopassive participle of *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). Cognate with Portuguese fêmea, Italian femmina, Spanish hembra, French femme.

inh

(biology) One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.

(zoology) An animal of the sex that produces eggs.

(botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

A bacterium which lacks the F factor, and is able to receive DNA from another bacterium which has that factor.


mènnula

→ Italian: mennula, mendola (regional)

→ Italian: Amendola, Mendola, Mendolia

From Latin *amendula, from Latin amygdala, from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē), of uncertain origin.

Ci quagghiau a mènnula?!

Anything shaped like an almond; specifically, (anatomy, archaic) a pineal/pituitary gland.


cugghiuni

From Late Latin cōleōnem, derived from Latin cōleus (“sack, scrotum”). Compare Italian coglione.


sacra dâ sasizza

head

sacra dâ sasizza f (plural sacre dâ sasizza)

From the visual resemblance of the human penis to a sasizza.

(slang, derogatory) A gathering with many more men than women; sausage party


scrotu

[ˈʃkrɔː.t̪ʊ̠]


jìditu

From Vulgar Latin *giditus, methatesis of Latin digitus (“finger”).


cavuliceḍḍu

Diminutive of càvulu, Late Latin caulus, Latin caulis (“stem, cabbage”).

(botany) cole, or various plants in the brassica family (cabbages, mustards, rapes)


viḍḍicu

From Vulgar Latin *(um)billicus, from Latin umbilīcus.
Compare the regional variants of ombelico: bellìco, villìco.


crignu

Uncertain. Perhaps from an unattested Vulgar Latin *crēneus, from Latin crēna (“corrupted word”). See also English crevice, crenellation.

(vulgar, colloquial) a raised middle finger


caḍḍu

From Latin callum (“A hard or thick substance”).

inh

The hardened, thick skin upon animal bodies, hide.

(figuratively) Hardness, callousness, insensibility, stupidity.


cugnata

From Latin cognāta (“related by blood”), from cum (“with”) + nāta (“born”).


masciḍḍa

From Latin māxilla, from māla (“the cheekbone, jaw”) + -illa (diminutive nominal suffix). Compare with similarly formed āla–āxilla, hence Sicilian asciḍḍa.

af

(anatomy) the jaw, jawbone, bone of the upper jaw

Coordinate term: mantìbbula

(anatomy) the lower part of the face, the jaws


capiḍḍu

Nnê Pajisi punintini, i fìmmini su' sòliti tèniri i capiḍḍi longhi a mentri i màsculi su' sòliti tinilli curti.

In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.

A menti è 'n filu 'i capiḍḍu


carcagnu

From Latin calcāneum (“heel”). Compare Italian calcagno.


cugnatu

From Latin cognātus (“related by blood”), from cum (“with”) + nātus (“born”).


rigulizzia

Inherited from Latin liquiritia, from Ancient Greek. Compare Spanish regaliz, French réglisse and dialectal Italian regolizia.

(botany) licorice (Glycyrrhiza echinata or glabra)


morvu

Inherited from Latin morbus (“illness”).


jinìparu

From Latin iūniperus (cfr. jimenta for iū- < ji-). Compare Italian ginepro.

Juniperus communis
Juniperus communis#Translingual


busunettu

(surgery) cautery (device resembling a branding iron, used in surgical contexts)


gnòcculu

→ Maltese: nokkla

In full: gnòcculu di capiddi


càmmiciu

(hairdressing) cloth used by barbers to cover the customer


a la cundannè

Borrowed from French à la condamné (literally “like a condemned person”).


campanaru

→ Maltese: kampnar

From campana (“bell”) + -aru. Compare Spanish campanario, Greek καμπαναριό (kampanarió, “bell tower”) and Italian campanaro, Spanish campanero (“bell ringer”).


pisciuni

desc

→ Maltese: pexxun, pixxun, (obsolete) pixxul

From pisci (“fish”) + -uni, literally “big fish”, because of its form. The formation “fish of the leg” can also be found in Lucania, Sardinian pische de sa camba and Moroccan Arabic حوتة الرجل (ḥūtat er-rjal).


prèula

Inherited from Latin pergula. Compare Italian pergola.

(viticulture) a framework that supports vine, a trellis


vilenu

Ultimately from Latin venēnum. In this form, perhaps borrowed from Italian veleno.


cufuruna

An alternation of bufuruna, likely from Latin būfō (“toad/turtle (?)”), whence also buffa (“toad”). Derivation from Ancient Greek κυφός (kuphós, “bent forward”) is to be deemed outdated.

(pathology) a horse's illness, called in Italian as talpa and testudine; a sort of abscess, testudo


virruggiu

Near-synonyms: tràpanu, virrina

large auger, gimlet (especially winemaking)


rijitanu

By surface analysis, Riju + itanu; from Late Latin rhēgītanus (attested in the 5th-century De haeresi et historia Eutychiana), from Rhēgium + -ītānus, ultimately from Latin Rhegium, from Ancient Greek Ῥήγιον (Rhḗgion).

native or inhabitant of Reggio Calabria (male or of unspecified gender)


pàmpina

→ Italian: pampina (regional)

From the feminization of Latin pampinus, possibly by way of . Compare also Galician pampo, Portuguese pâmpano, Spanish pámpano.

(botany) foliage of a vine, vine-shoot, vine leaf