Australia

(geology) Australia (a continent consisting of the land on the Australian tectonic plate, i.e. Australia, New Guinea and intervening islands)


voi

Italian: Lo Voi (from “lu voi”)

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


acqua

Inherited from Latin aqua (“water”). Cognates include Neapolitan and Italian acqua.

(meteorology) rain (condensed water falling from a cloud)


porta

porti (plural)
purta (alternative)
potta (alternative)
puaitta (alternative)
puajtta (alternative)

From Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”). Compare, for more, Galician, Portuguese, Italian, Corsican, and Neapolitan porta, Asturian and Spanish puerta.


Europa

Borrowed from Latin Eurōpa. Doublet of Sicilian Aurupa.

Aurupa (alternative)
Arupa (alternative)
Eurupa (alternative)
Iurupa (alternative)

(astronomy) Europa (52 Europa, a main belt asteroid; not to be confused with the Jovian moon)


piru

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


pilu

→ Italian: pilu, pilo, pelo

tira cchiussai nu pilu di sticchiu ca nu carru di voi

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.

(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.


ossu

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


chiavi

→ Maltese: ċavi, ⇒ ċavu

From Latin clāvis, clāvem (“key”). Cognate with Italian chiave.

(cryptography) key (for encoding or decoding)


Palistina

(historical, technical) Palestine (a British colonial entity administering approximately the lands mentioned in definition 1)

(historical, technical, rare) Palestine (the British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, of which this region was a part (the remainder being Transjordan, which covered approximately the lands of the modern Kingdom (originally Emirate) of Jordan))


pezza

→ Maltese: biċċa


serpi

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


ràdica

ràdichi (plural)
radica (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
rarica (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
ràrica (alternative dialectal)
ràdiga (alternative dialectal)

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

(botany) ipecacuanha (Carapichea ipecacuanha)


ovu

ova (plural)
ou (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
uou (alternative)
uovu (alternative)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum n. Compare Italian uovo.

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.


agugghia

agugghi (plural)
avugghia (alternative)
'gugghia (alternative)
'vugghia (alternative)
augghia (alternative)
vugghia (alternative)
ugghia (alternative)

From Old Occitan agulha, from Late Latin acūcula, diminutive of Latin acus (“needle”). Compare French and English aiguille, Italian aguglia.

Belone belone
Belone belone#Translingual

(ichthyology)
broadnosed pipefish (Syngnathus typhle)


sciara

→ Italian: sciara

Uncertain. Apparently of Arabic origin. Italian academia, in the hope of attributing a source, has over time accumulated unproven hypotheses found in Ancient Greek σκῐερός (skĭerós, “shady, dark coloured”) (in reference to the color of the lava stone) and a not better explained derivation from Latin flāgrō (“I burn”) (cfr. ciàguru for this latter).

der

(geology) A mound of magmatic scoriae formed along lava flows.


cucuzza longa

(botany) Cucurbita moschata var. serpente di Sicilia


mastru

mastri (plural)
majistru (alternative)
maistru (alternative)
maestru (alternative)
masciu (alternative)

Vulgarization of majistru, from the accusative of Latin magister. The stressed syllable shift could be explained with the conflation with a cognate variant, like the Catalan mestre. Compare Corsican maestru, French maitre, Ligurian méistro, Italian maestro, Sardinian maistru, Spanish maese.

L'àrburu mastru

(engineering) A device that is principal or carrier in a given facility.


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.


ramu

From Vulgar Latin *arāmen, variant of Late Latin aerāmen, derived from Latin aer-.

rammu (alternative)
rami (alternative)
rama (alternative)


fìmmina

fìmmini (plural)
fimmina (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

→ 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.


uraganu

Borrowed from Spanish huracán (“hurricane”).


tulimaicu

head

tulimaicu (feminine singular tulimaica, masculine and feminine plural tulimaici)

tulimaica (feminine singular)
tulimaici (feminine masculine plural)

[t̪ʊ.lɪˈmäɪ̯.kʊ̠]

Borrowed from Latin Ptolemāicus from Koine Greek Πτολεμᾱϊκός (Ptolemāïkós) from Πτολεμαῖος (Ptolemaîos), a proper name derived from Epic Greek πτόλεμος (ptólemos), variant of Ancient Greek πόλεμος (pólemos, “battle, war”); equivalent to Tulumeu + -icu. Compare Italian tolemaico, Spanish ptolemaico, Portuguese ptolomaico, French ptolémaïque.

der

(history, astronomy) Ptolemaic; pertaining to Ptolemy, the Ptolemies dynasty, or the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt (305 BC – 30 BC).


cavuliceḍḍu

cavuliceḍḍi (plural)
cavuliceddu (alternative)
cauliceḍḍu (alternative)

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

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


stiḍḍa

stiḍḍi (plural)
stidda (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
steḍḍa (alternative)
stella (alternative)

→ Italian: Stidda

→ Maltese: stilla

From Latin stēlla, from Proto-Italic *stērolā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.

(astronomy) A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included.


cugnu

→ Italian: cugno, Cugno

From Latin cuneus. Compare Galician cuño, Portuguese cunho and cunha, Spanish cuño and cuña, Italian cuneo and conio.

, similar to

Stamu jennu ô cugnu di Prita.

(topography) part of a mountainous relief surrounded by the ditches of a canyon; hill

(by association) an extra-urban road situated over that mountainous or hilly stretch


Circi

(astronomy) 34 Circe, a main belt asteroid.


rigulizzia

Italian: Rigolizia (toponym)

Via metathesis from Late Latin liquiritia, from glycyrrhiza, a borrowing of Ancient Greek γλυκύρριζα (glukúrrhiza). Compare Catalan regalèssia, Spanish regaliz, French réglisse and Old 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


canzirru

canzirri (plural)
cansirru (alternative)


caudu

Italian: Caudo

Through an early syncopic *caldu, ultimately from Latin cal(i)dus.

càvudu (alternative)
cauru (alternative)
càvuru (alternative)
callu (alternative)

Di quannu l'omu spirtìu nnê scienzi tècnichi, u diviluppu nnustriali pari ca fici sbummijari nu caudu ca un si vidìa di migghiara di anni.

Since mankind has improved in the technical sciences, industrial development has exploded a heat that has not been seen for thousands of years.

Èranu i jorna dâ merra, ma sbummicau u stissu 'n gran caudu ca parìa a stati.

It was during the days of the merla but a great heatwave burst forth anyway, it was like summer.


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


majurana

Inherited from Latin maiōrana. Compare Italian maggiorana.


furficicchiu

scn-noun

furficicchiu m (plural furficicchi or furficicchia)

furficicchi (plural)
furficicchia (plural)

From fòrficia (“scissors”) + -icchiu (masculine diminutive suffix). Cf. scurpiuni (“gecko”).

af

(zoology) Any scorpion
(zoology) Euscorpius sicanus