cumannari li festi

Literally, “to command over the feastdays”.

lit

Prima veniva lui, il dito grosso, che comandava le feste e le quarant’ore; […]

1881, Giovanni Verga, “Capitolo I”, in I Malavoglia (overall work in Italian):


agghiummarari

head

agghiummarari (past participle agghiummaratu)

agghiummaratu (participle past)
agghiommarari (alternative)
agghiummariari (alternative)

Inherited from Latin agglomerō, agglomerāre (“to wind into a ball”).

inh+

agghiummarari lu filu

(transitive)
to wind (into a ball of thread)

Agghiòmmara e agghiutti.

(transitive)
to eat exceedingly; to stuff oneself


malassata

Likely from the feminine past participle of Latin malaxō (“to knead, soften”), from Ancient Greek μαλάσσω (malássō).

(Messina) Synonym of frocia (“omelette, frittata”)


pisci d'ovu

pisci d'ovu (plural)
pisci r'ovu (alternative)
pisci r'uovu (alternative)

[ˌpiʃ.ʃɪˈdɔ.ʊ]

From pisci + di + ovu, Literally, “fish [made] of egg”, because it was prepared by the lower class who could not afford fish.

(south-eastern Sicily, dish) A dish of beaten eggs, then fried with olive oil. It can be prepared by adding breadcrumbs and grated cheese in the mix, or any other local ingredient.

south-eastern Sicily; dish; south-eastern Sicily; dish


jocu di focu

desc

→ Maltese: ġigġifogu, ġigdifogu, ġifġifogu, ġogdifogu

jochi di focu a la rumana

fari un jocu di focu

finiri a jocu di focu


focu d'artifizziu

head

focu d'artifizziu m (plural fochi d'artifizziu)


gnòcculu

→ Maltese: nokkla

(chiefly in the plural) gnocchi (type of pasta)

In full: gnòcculu di capiddi


jittari li manu

Literally, “to throw the hands”. Compare Italian mettere mano.

sapiri unni jittari li manu

Jetta li manu e fa na frocia.


arristagghiu

arristagghi (plural)
ristagghiu (alternative)

From arristari (“to stay”) + -agghiu. Compare Italian rimasuglio, Neapolitan remmasuglia.

(chiefly in the plural) remains, leftovers


stagghiari

Possibly s- (“to cut”) + tagghiari. Compare Italian stagliare (“to cut roughly”).

(intransitive) to stagnate (to cease one's flow)

stagghiari lu parrari

stagghiari li passi

(transitive) to stanch (to stop the flow); to stop, interrupt, delay

(Christianity) to commence the canonical hours with a toll of the bell


staciunari

staciunatu (participle past)
staggiunari (alternative)

From staciuni (“season”) + -ari. Compare Italian stagionare.


staggiunari

staggiunari (past participle staggiunatu)

Likely borrowed from Italian stagionare.


paparina

paparini (plural)
papparrina (alternative)

Contraction of *papavarina, inherited from Latin papāver (“poppy”) + -ina. Compare Greek παπαρούνα (paparoúna).

paparina curnuta

Papaver rhoeas
Papaver rhoeas#Translingual

P. somniferum
Papaver somniferum#Translingual

(hunting, uncountable) Synonym of chiummu (“birdshots”)


ciàula

ciaula (canonical feminine)
ciauli (plural)


carcarazza

carcarazzi (plural)
carcarazzu (alternative)

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek καρακάξα (karakáxa, “jay”), influenced by carcariari (“to cackle, squawk, of birds”).

bor+

vuci di carcarazza

fari lu cori comu na carcarazza

to have one's heart like a hopping spinning top

a bad spinning top, which while spinning hops and screeches


càmmiciu

(hairdressing) cloth used by barbers to cover the customer


a la cundannè

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


mammaluccu

Ultimately from Arabic مَمْلُوك (mamlūk). Compare Italian mammalucco, French mamelouk.

L’imbriacu gridau: tacíti, o cucchi, / sù lu regnanti di li Mammalucchi.

1785 – 1787, Giovanni Meli, Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza 6.76

The drunk man yelled: shut up, you idiots, I'm the king of the mamelukes.

Coordinate term: babbaluci (“snail”)


campanaru

→ Maltese: kampnar

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

cog

girari comu la bannirola di lu campanaru

to spin like the bell tower's weather vane

bell tower, belfry, campanile (steeple of a church containing a bell)

(sulfur mining) A place where the ceiling of the sulfur mine is muddy and precarious.


campanaru

head

campanaru (feminine singular campanara, masculine and feminine plural campanari)

campanara (feminine singular)
campanari (feminine masculine plural)

bestia campanara

crastu campanaru

leading (animal) wearing a bell on its neck


pupu cu l'ovu

pupu cu l'ovu m (plural pupi cu l'ovu or pupi cu l'ova)

pupi cu l'ovu (plural)
pupi cu l'ova (plural)

A pastry prepared in various shapes with an egg placed in the middle, prepared during Easter.


sicuru

sicuru (feminine singular sicura, masculine and feminine plural sicuri)

sicura (feminine singular)
sicuri (feminine masculine plural)


alciuni

From Latin alcyōn, from Ancient Greek ἀλκυών (alkuṓn, “kingfisher”). Compare Italian alcione (“kingfisher, seagull”).


mujata

Synonym of moja (“liquid feces, diarrhea”)


vistiri

vistiri (infinitive)
vistennu (gerund)
vistutu (participle past)
vestu (first-person indicative present singular)
vesti (indicative present second-person singular)
vesti (indicative present singular third-person)
vistemu (first-person indicative plural present)
vistiti (indicative plural present second-person)
vèstinu (indicative plural present third-person)
vèstunu (indicative plural present third-person)
vistìa (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
vistivi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
vistìa (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
vistìamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
vistìavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
vistìanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
vistivi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
vistìi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
vististi (indicative preterite second-person singular)
vistìu (indicative preterite singular third-person)
vistemmu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
vistìstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
visteru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
vistirìa (first-person indicative singular)
vistirissi (indicative second-person singular)
vistirìa (indicative singular third-person)
vistirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
vistirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
vistirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
vestu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
vesti (present second-person singular subjunctive)
vesti (present singular subjunctive third-person)
vistemu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
vistiti (plural present second-person subjunctive)
vèstinu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
vèstunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
vistissi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
vistissi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
vistissi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
vistìssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
vistìssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
vistìssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
vesti (imperative second-person singular)
vistissi (imperative singular third-person)
vistemu (first-person imperative plural)
vistiti (imperative plural second-person)


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).


anìmulu

anìmuli (plural)
anìmmulu (alternative)
nìmulu (alternative)
nìmmulu (alternative)
nìmula (alternative)

From Koine Greek ἀνέμη (anémē, “weasel”) + -ulu.

af

jiri comu n'anìmulu

[…] e la testa cci gira, comu animulu.

1785 – 1787, Giovanni Meli, Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza 7.29

[…] and his head was spinning like a swift.

(spinning) swift (wooden tool spun to stretch a skein of yarn)


cintìmulu

Ultimately from Latin cingō, thus compare cìnciri and cinta. For sense 2, compare centu and Italian centesimino.

firriari lu cintìmulu

Pirchì cci pari lu celu un cintimulu, […]

c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter VII, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 29:

mill powered by draught animals, usually a mule


prèula

Alternative form of prègula (eye dialect)


scùnchiri

scùnchiri lu cori


pirsuna

pirsuna dispersa


vintura

→ Maltese: vintura

Inherited from Latin ventūra n pl (literally “what will come”). Compare Italian ventura.

inh+

a la vintura

addiminari la vintura

Cu muta locu muta vintura.

Who changes places, changes [their] fate.

circàrisi la vintura

Cci voli la vintura di Giufà.

Quannu è junta l'ura nun cc'è mèdicu nè vintura.

When the time has come, there's no doctor nor hope.

Cu havi bona vintura piscia lu lettu e dici ca suda.

Who has a good name pisses in bed and says it's him sweating.


catusu

→ Maltese: katusa

catusu mastru

catusu di chiummu

(figurative) Anything that is oblong and malformed.


sfirrari

sfirratu (participle past)
sfirrari (infinitive)
sfirrannu (gerund)
sfirratu (participle past)
sferru (first-person indicative present singular)
sferri (indicative present second-person singular)
sferra (indicative present singular third-person)
sfirramu (first-person indicative plural present)
sfirrati (indicative plural present second-person)
sfèrranu (indicative plural present third-person)
sfèrrunu (indicative plural present third-person)
sfirrava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sfirravu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sfirravi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sfirrava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sfirràvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sfirràvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sfirràvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sfirràvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sfirrai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
sfirrasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
sfirrau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
sfirrò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
sfirrammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
sfirramu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
sfirràstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
sfirràrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
sfirraru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
sfirrirò (first-person future indicative singular)
sfirrirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
sfirrirai (future indicative second-person singular)
sfirrirà (future indicative singular third-person)
sfirriremu (first-person future indicative plural)
sfirrireti (future indicative plural second-person)
sfirririti (future indicative plural second-person)
sfirrirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
sfirrirìa (first-person indicative singular)
sfirririssi (indicative second-person singular)
sfirrirìa (indicative singular third-person)
sfirrirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
sfirrirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
sfirrirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
sferru (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sferri (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sferra (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sfirramu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
sfirrati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
sfèrranu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sfèrrunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sfirrassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sfirrassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sfirrassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sfirràssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sfirràssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sfirràssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sferra (imperative second-person singular)
sfirrassi (imperative singular third-person)
sfirramu (first-person imperative plural)
sfirrati (imperative plural second-person)

From Vulgar Latin *exferrō, *exferrāre. Compare Italian sferrare. By surface analysis, s- + ferru + -ari. Compare Italian perdere le staffe. Cfr. also firrijari~furrijari.

E sachi ki quantu plui si ferra lu cavallu iuvini tantu plui li soi unghi diventanu debili e molli, kí lu usu di andari sferatu genera da la sua iuvintuti li soi unghi duri e grandi.

a. 1368, De Cruyllis–Spatafora, “Di la guardia et di la doctrina di lu cavallu”, in Libru di la Mascalchia […], translation of De Medicina equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 11v:

And know that the younger the horse is shoed the more his hooves become weak and soft, because the practice of going unshoed yields big and strong hooves from his youth.

(transitive, farriery) to unshoe (a horse)

(colloquial, of people) to lose irrationally the control or patience.

(of a clock) to ring out of time or generally unpleasingly

(intransitive)
to have a licentious life

Qualchi vota è benefica, e in cert’uri ¶ Si fa tiranna, incrudelisci, e sferra[…].

c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter VIII, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 8:

Sometimes she's kind, and sometimes she becomes tyrant, cruel, and flies off the handle.

(intransitive)
to get angry; to fly off the handle

(reflexive) See sfirràrisi and sfirrarisilla.


agghiummaràrisi

Sanciu si agghiummaría ’mmenzu la nivi; […]

c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter I, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, introduction:

E squagghiu, e scunchiu e lu pedi s’agghiommara[…].

c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter VII, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 69:

And I melt, and faint, and my foot trips.


cuncutrigghiu

cuncutrigghi (plural)
cuncutriddu (alternative)
cucutrigghiu (alternative)

Inherited from Latin crocodilus. Compare Italian coccodrillo.

chiantu di cuncutrigghiu


fucularu

scn-noun

fucularu m (plural fuculari or fuculara)

fuculari (plural)
fuculara (plural)
cufularu (alternative)
fucaloru (alternative)
focularu (alternative)
fucalire (alternative)
focalire (alternative)

→ Maltese: fuklar

From Vulgar Latin *focolarium. Compare Italian focolaio and focolare.

cunti di la nanna a lu fucularu

fari fucularu

cosi di dìrisi a lu fucularu

a grouping, a gathering of some people, usually approached in the connotation of them being gossipy


cartuleggi

cartuleggi di so nannu


cartuleggi di so nannu

Literally, “one's grandfather's old papers”.

lit

arriminari / jiri circannu li cartuleggi di so nannu

to ruminate over the past / to seek profit in doubtful things

(figuratively) old memories, old events, old things; the past


jinìa

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá). Compare Italian genia, Albanian gjini.

bor+

descent, race (group of elements from the same origin)

Na crapa virminusa nfetta na jinìa.

A verminous goat infects the whole herd.

Sacusu tu cu tutta la to jinìa.

(usually derogatory) despicable group of people


signu

From Latin signum. COmpare Italian segno. Doublet of sinna.


maccarruni

→ Maltese: mqarrun

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: مقارنه (makarna)
Turkish: makarna
→ Armenian: մախառնա (maxaṙna), մաքառնա (makʻaṙna), մաքարնա (makʻarna), մաքառինա (makʻaṙina), մաքարինա (makʻarina), մակարինա (makarina)
→ Bulgarian: макари́на (makarína)
→ Georgian: მაკარინა (maḳarina) — Chveneburi
→ Laz: მაკარინა (maǩarina), მაკაინა (maǩaina), მაკაჲინა (maǩayina) — alternative spellings
→ North Levantine Arabic: [script needed] (maqārna, maqarīna) — Damascus
→ Pontic Greek: μακαρίνα (makarína)

Cognate with Italian maccherone, see there for more.

maccarruna di zita

lu caciu nta li maccarruna

manciari li maccarruna 'n testa a 'n àutru

to eat macaroni on top of someone else's head

sìmplici comu l'acqua di li maccarruna

lavatu ntall'acqua di li maccarruna

maccarruni senza sali

(in the plural, nautical) wooden beams that support the gunwale


maccarrunaru

From maccarruni + -aru. Compare Italian maccheronaio.

calata di li maccarrunara (literally “macaroni sellers' slope”)


calata di li maccarrunara

Discesa Maccheronai, the main street of the Vuccirìa market, in Palermo


maccarrunarìa

From maccarruni (“fool, idiot”) + -arìa.


pinzeḍḍu

scn-noun

pinzeḍḍu m (plural pinzeḍḍi or pinzeḍḍa)

pinzeḍḍi (plural)
pinzeḍḍa (plural)
pinzeddu (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

From Catalan pinzell or from Old French pincel, ultimately from Latin pēnicillum (“paintbrush”).


èliu

Inherited from Latin hēlium, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”). Cognate with Asturian heliu, Catalan heli, Corsican eliu, French hélium, Italian elio, Maltese ilju, Portuguese hélio, Spanish elio.

eliu (alternative)
ìliu (alternative)
iliu (alternative)


màchina

desc

→ Maltese: magna, makna, makina (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin machina. Compare Italian macchina and dialectal machina.

màchina umana

màchina pri fari lu bùtiru

device, machine (object that allows to perform certain actions)

omu di màchina

È na màchina st'edificiu!


zonna

Uncertain origin. Compare Italian cionna and Sicilian cionnu.

Ma chi zonna sì?!

(vulgar) An interjection often used to mean surprise, disdain or appreciation.


Carnilivari

Carnaluvari (alternative)
Carnilivaru (alternative)
Carnivali (alternative)
Carruali (alternative)
Carriali (alternative)
Carnelevara (alternative)
Carnulivaru (alternative)
Carniale (alternative)

nannu di Carnilivari

baruni di Carnilivari

cassateddi di Carnilivari

Lu Carnivali mancia cu cu voi, e la Pasqua cu li toi.

The nannu, impersonification of the Carnival.

(humorous) someone dressed eccentrically, oddly


Carnelevara

(central Calabria) Alternative form of Carnilivari


lavuri

From Latin labor (“work, labor”). Compare Italian lavoro.

(agriculture) harvest, reaping, wheat, corn, crop


àriu

From the metathesis of an earlier àiru, from Latin āerem, accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of ària.

Ch'è tintu oji l'àriu.

L'àriu [di] Marcu.

(agriculture) farmyard; any large rural area of private property.


àira

→ Italian: Dell'Aira

From Latin āerem, accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). More at àriu.


padeḍḍa

padeḍḍi (plural)
pateḍḍa (alternative)
pareḍḍa (alternative)
padedda (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
paredda (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
patedda (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

From the sonorization of Latin patella, diminutive of patera or patina. Doublet of pateḍḍa.


sartànija

Through an intermediate *sartaniga, from the metathesis of Late Latin sartāgō, sartāginem (“frying pan”). Compare Neapolitan sartàjine, Portuguese sertã, Romanesco sartàina, Sardinian sartaghine, Spanish sartén. Cfr., for the morphology, russànija, vurrànija and filìnija.


cuteḍḍu

cuteḍḍi (plural)
cuteḍḍa (plural)
cutieḍḍu (alternative)
cutjeḍḍu (alternative)
cuteddu (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

→ Italian: Cutelli (plural)


zineffa

→ Italian: zineffa

From Arabic صَنِيفَة (ṣanīfa), via Siculo-Arabic. Cognate with Spanish cenefa.

A decorative strip—either woven into or applied over the edges—used on items like curtains, canopies, and handkerchiefs, typically made from the same fabric, though sometimes a contrasting one is used.

A horizontal rod designed to support and display curtains on doors and windows.


ncannaruzzari

(transitive) to stanch (air flows) inside a sulfur mine

(intransitive, of air flows) to stagnate inside a sulfur mine


gesiminu

gesiminu m needs inflection (canonical)
giasiminu (alternative)
gesuminu (alternative)
gessuminu (alternative)
gersuminu (alternative)
gelsiminu (alternative)
gelsuminu (alternative)

desc

→ Maltese: ġiżimin, ġiżmin, ġesmina, ġeżmina

Etymology tree
Middle Persian yʾsmn'
Classical Persian یَاسَمِین (yāsamīn)bor.
Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn)bor.
Sicilian gesiminu
From Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn), via Siculo-Arabic. Cognate with Italian gelsomino.

etymon

gesuminu cidratu / di l'Arabbia / di Malta

gesuminu di Nàpuli

Jasminum officinale
Jasminum officinale#Translingual


macineddu

From màcina + -eddu. Compare Italian macinello and Maltese maċinell.


ragogghia

ragogghi (plural)
ravogghia (alternative)

From Spanish argolla (“ring”), from Arabic غُلّ (ḡull).

ring. Particularly:
(croquet) hoop, wicket

bocci e ragogghia
bocci e ragogghia#Sicilian

Short for bocci e ragogghia (“croquet”).

ring. Particularly:
a ring in a whippletree system

piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth to keep his mouth open to give it medication


firriolu

firriola (plural)
furriolu (alternative)

→? Italian: ferraiolo

→ Spanish: herreruelo

→ Maltese: firjol

Connected to Spanish herreruelo; the borrowing directions are badly accounted for. Possibly with influence of firriari (“to spin”).

cuddaru di lu firriolu

a lu cògghiri di li firriola

at the grasping of the cape (to stand up)

D'un firriolu nni fici un buttuni.


piciolla

piciolli (plural)
piciollu (alternative masculine variant)
ciolla (alternative)

→ Italian: piciolla (regional)

Uncertain. Probably derived from/cognate with an Old Occitan stratum (because of the palatalization). Compare for more Galician pichola, Spanish picha/pichula, Portuguese picha, Italian pisello, Piedmontese piciu.

(childish) willy, wee wee, wiener, peter (penis)

Nun mi taliari a piciolla.

Si' na piciolla!


sfirràrisi

Intandu li mesagi, […] se sferaru et parteru da locu cun grandi alegria.

c. 1321–37, Accurso di Cremona, chapter 6, in Libru di Valeriu Maximu translatatu in vulgar messinisi, volume 1, page 41, line 33:


cugliutu

head

cugliutu (feminine singular cugliuta, masculine and feminine plural cugliuti)

cugliuta (feminine singular)
cugliuti (feminine masculine plural)

From Vulgar Latin *cōleūtus. Compare Sardinian cozudu, Spanish cojudo.

la carni di lu beccu crastatu, rotulu unu: dinari XX. la carni di l'agnellu, rotulu unu: dinari XX. la carni di lu beccu cuglutu, rotulu unu […]

1380, Documenti palermitani, section 4, page 242, line 12:

the meat of the castrated goat, one rottol: dinars XX. the meat of the lamb, one rottol: dinars XX. the meat of the uncastrated goat, one rottol […]


attruvari

E da ki li ài atruvatu lu frenu bonu e cunvinivili nun li lu mutari.

a. 1368, De Cruyllis–Spatafora, “Di la maynera di li freni”, in Libru di la Mascalchia […], translation of De Medicina equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 14r:

And since you found a good and suitable bit for it [a horse] don't change it.

Chi si un regnu infelici ávi la guerra, / O la fami o la pesti cci attruvati[…].

c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter IV, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 1:

Because if an unfortunate rein is in war, you'll find there either famine or plague.


jènniru

jènniri (plural)
jènnaru (alternative)
'ènnaru (alternative)
'ènniru (alternative)

From Latin gener, generum (“son-in-law”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵm̥ros, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵem-. Cognate with Italian genero, Neapolitan jènnero.


palataru

palatara (plural)
balataru (alternative)

First attested in 1348. Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *palātārem, derived from Latin palātum. Borrowed via either Catalan or Spanish paladar, as was Sardinian paladare as well.

A cu àvi guastu lu palataru lu meli cci pari amaru.

For who has a bad palate honey tastes bitter.

È una altra maynera di frenu lu quali è dictu a capistru: àvi lu morsu plui longu di li altri, fini a lu palataru di lu cavallu, e dintru a la bucca spandi in lu morsu multi falci diversi […]

a. 1368, De Cruyllis–Spatafora, Libru di la Mascalchia […], translation of De Medicina equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 574:


nutrichìvili

From nutricari + -èvuli. Compare Italian nutrichevole.

[…] et in pirzo sunu ali corpi di li cavalli plui nutrikivili e plui saciabili.

a. 1368, De Cruyllis–Spatafora, “Di la guardia e di la doctrina di lu cavallu”, in Libru di la Mascalchia […], translation of De Medicina equorum by Giordano Ruffo, pages 11r–11v:

[…] and for this reason they are to the horses' bodies more nutritious and satiating.


morfu

Possibly from the Lucanian substrate, from Proto-Italic *morfos, whence Latin morbus whence Sicilian morvu.

(central Calabria) Synonym of morvu (“snot”)


murfusu

murfusu (feminine singular murfusa, masculine and feminine plural murfusi)

murfusa (feminine singular)
murfusi (feminine masculine plural)

From morfu + -usu. Compare Italian moccioso.


lattilebbra

From latti (“milk”) + erva (“grass”). Possibly influenced by lebbru (“hare”).


caccialepri

From cacciari (“to hunt”) + lebbri (“hares”). Compare Italian caccialepre.


cacicia

Reseda luteola
Reseda luteola#Translingual


Nissa

→ Medieval Latin: Nissa

Borrowed from Arabic النِسَاء (an-nisāʔ), clipping of the extended form Arabic قَلْعَة النِسَاء (qalʕa an-nisāʔ, “Fortress of the Women”). Compare, for a similar output from Siculo-Arabic, compare Buxema and Xibbetta.

bor

قَلْعَة النِسَاء

Caltanissetta (a city, in Sicily, Italy)


chiattu

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chiattu (feminine singular chiatta, masculine and feminine plural chiatti)

chiatta (feminine singular)
chiatti (feminine masculine plural)

→ Maltese: ċatt

From Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flat”). Compare Neapolitan chiatto and Italian piatto. Doublet of piattu (“plate”).

chiattu e tunnu


chiattu

dari di chiattu


piattu

piatta (plural)
piatti (plural)
prattu (alternative)

Borrowed from Italian piatto (“plate”). Doublet of chiattu (“fat; flat”).


chiaita

→ Maltese: ċajt

chiaiti assai e fatti pocu

inchiri la testa di chiaiti

troppi chiaiti mèttinu siti

(often in the plural) chit-chat, chatter


chiaitiari

From chiaiti (“chatter, chit-chat”) + -iari.


chiaitari

→? Maltese: ċċajta

From chiaiti (“chatter, chit-chat”) + -ari.

(intransitive) to chatter, chit-chat, gossip


chiaiteri

→? Maltese: ċajtier

From chiaitari (“to chatter, gossip”) + -eri.


càntaru

From Latin cantharus, from Ancient Greek κάνθαρος (kántharos). Compare Italian cantero.

pezza di càntaru (literally “chamber pot towel”)


pezza di càntaru

pezza di càntaru m (plural pezzi di càntaru)


cacazza

From cacari (“to shit”). Compare French chiasse.

shit (of very small animals: flies, fleas, etc.)

In full: cacazza d'occhi

In full: cacazza d'oricchia

In full: cacazza di ferru


fafajana

Akin to fava (“broad bean”). Possibly from its Osco-Umbrian cognate, from Proto-Italic *fafā ~ *fabā. Compare Lucanian Neapolitan fafa, fafodda.

Tenniri sù sti fafajani.

1853, Giuseppe Piaggia, Illustrazione di Milazzo e studj sulla morale e su' costumi dei villani del suo territorio (overall work in Italian):


granciu

→ Maltese: granċ

desc

→ Tunisian Arabic: قرنجو (granju, “Carcinus aestuarii”)

Ultimately from Latin cancer, cancrum (“crab”). Cognate with Italian granchio.

Dormi patedda, ca lu granciu vigghia!

Sleep, limpet, while the crab stays awake!


vilenu

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


crapistu

crapistu m needs inflection (canonical)
capistru (alternative)
crapista (alternative)

Inherited from Latin capistrum. Cognate with Italian capestro.

Prisu e misuli lu capistru in testa minissi ad unu locu ki si adusi ad adumari […]

a. 1368, De Cruyllis–Spatafora, “lu modu di piglari di infrinari e di adumari li cavalli”, in Libru di la Mascalchia […], translation of De Medicina equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 10r:

After taking and attaching the halter to its head, it shall be brought in a place suitable for taming.


suattu

Alternative form of sugattu m (eye dialect)


cufuruna

cufuruni (plural)
bufuruna (alternative)
bufuluna (alternative)
boforona (alternative)

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.

ncog

[…] la virtù di questa pietra senza dubio è cotale, che contraposta dinanzi a gl'occhi di ciascuno animale serpente velenoso, o di suo simigliante, o vero di quello, il quale volgarmente buforona in Cicilia si chiama […]

[1324, Filippo Ceffi, Historia destructionis Troiae (in Italian), translation of original by Guido delle Colonne, L. 3 pag. 38:

The power of this gem is with no doubt such that, placed before the eyes of any animal venomous serpent, or its similar, that is of the one that is vernacularly called buforona in Sicily...

turtle, more specifically Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni)

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


cacciaturi

cacciaturi m needs inflection (canonical)

→ Arbëresh Albanian: kaçatúr

From cacciari (“to hunt”) + -turi, compare Italian cacciatore.

curria contra li lanzi comu la fera quandu esti turniyata da li cachaturi, la quali curri in killa parti duvi vidi li spissi lanzi […]

c. 1316–1337, Angelo di Capua, La Istoria di Eneas, translation of original by Virgil, L. 9, pag. 164.5:

it ran towards the spears like an animal when surrounded by hunters, which runs in the direction where it sees the most spears

(military) chasseur, a soldier form light infantry


cileccu

cilecchi (plural)
gileccu (alternative)
gilè (alternative)

→ Maltese: ġlekk

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یلك (yelek), whence Turkish yelek.

bor+

Near-synonym: jippuni

Stu cileccu mi veni bonu.


virruggiu

Near-synonyms: tràpanu, virrina

large auger, gimlet (especially winemaking)


virrina

virrini (plural)
birrina (alternative)
firrina (alternative)
nfirrina (alternative)

→ Maltese: berrina

Akin to Italian verrina, of uncertain origin. Traditionally derived from Ancient Greek πείρω (peírō, “to pierce, run through”).

ncog

Near-synonyms: tràpanu, virruggiu, passaturi, pirciaturi, asta, mancina


picciuni

scn-noun

picciuni m (plural picciuna or picciuni)

→ Maltese: beċċun

From Latin pīpiō, pīpiōnem (“chirping bird”).

A la morti si spinna lu picciuni.

Someone's will goes into effect once they die.

The feathers of the pigeon are plucked when it died.

grown-up bird who still hasn't left its nest, or has just left it


scornu

A scornu nostru rignirà indefessu / l'omu dunqui, chi pensa, e chi ragiuna?

1785 – 1787, Giovanni Meli, Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza 12.54

Will then a man who thinks and reasons reign tirelessly to our shame?


scornu

Compare Corsican scornu (“corner”), Old French corn (“corner”).

In full: scornu di la tàvula

(woodworking) each of the two round most external sections of a trunk when cut longitudinally, from which tables are often made


giuccu

Borrowed from Old French joc (“chicken roost”).

bor+

jiri a lu giuccu


cuccìa

→ Maltese: quċċija, qoċċija

[kʊˈt͡ːʃiːa̠]

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κουκκία (koukkía, “broad beans”). Compare Ukrainian кутя́ (kutjá).

(chiefly Sicily, especially Syracuse) Soup of boiled wheatberries, sugar and other varying ingredients, traditionally eaten on December 13, the feast day of Saint Lucy.

chiefly Sicily; especially Syracuse; chiefly Sicily; especially Syracuse

(province of Cosenza, Calabria) Dish with boiled wheatberries and goat and pig meat.

province of Cosenza; Calabria; province of Cosenza; Calabria


itria

itri (plural)
litria (alternative)
lutra (alternative)
utra (alternative)

From a conflation of Latin lutra (“otter”) and Ancient Greek ἔνυδρις (énudris, “otter”).


almancu

Compare Italian almanco, Maltese lamank.

[…] per tal que si la fortuna lu avissi favuritu, issu lu destruyssi, et si non, almancu amancassi alcuna cosa di so statu.

c. 1321–37, Accurso di Cremona, Libru di Valeriu Maximu, L. 6, chapter 5, volume 2, page 84, line 11:

[…] so that if fortune helped him, he would have destroyed him, and if not, at least he would somewhat worsen his status.


zinnapòtamu

zinnapòtamu m needs inflection (canonical)
zinnapòtaru (alternative)

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κυνοπόταμος (kunopótamos, “beaver”).


medicu

Inherited from Latin medicus. Compare Italian medico, Neapolitan miedeco.


-ulu

Inherited from Latin -ulus. Compare Italian -olo.

cacòcciula, gnòcculu, anìmulu, etc.


oceddu de la morte

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oceddu de la morte m (plural oceddi de la morte)

Literally, “death bird”. Compare English deathbird.


mafisce

From dialectal Arabic مافيش (mafīš), compare English mafeesh.


ràrica

ràdiga (alternative)
ràdica (alternative)


ugnu

Inherited from Latin ungula, or from Spanish uña


maggiuri

maggiuri (feminine singular maggiuri, masculine and feminine plural maggiuri)

maggiuri (feminine singular)
maggiuri (feminine masculine plural)
majuri (alternative)
ματζούρη (alternative)

From Latin maior. Compare Italian maggiore.

βούη τζυράτι […] δι πρήνδιρη ἀ κήστου μησὲρ Τάλη κη βη στάη λάτου πηρ βόστρου λητζήτιμου μαρίτου […] δι νό λου καντζάρι πὴρ ματζούρη σόου νἧν πὴρ πιγ[ι]ουρη σόου?

1259–1266, Wedding vow in the codex Hunter 475:

Do you swear […] to take this sir Placeholder that stands besides you as your legitimate husband […] and to not replace him for [someone] better than him nor for [someone] worse than him?

vui tzurati […] di prindiri a kistu miser Tali ki vi stai latu pir vostru litzitimu maritu […] di no lu kantzari pir matzuri sou nin pir pig[i]uri sou?


litraru

litraru (feminine singular litrara, masculine and feminine plural litrari)

litrara (feminine singular)
litrari (feminine masculine plural)

→ Albanian: litrar — Calabria

Possibly from litra (“unit of measure for oil, litre”).

(central Calabria, often nominalized) lazy, idler, good-for-nothing


curveddu

curveddi (plural)
curbeddu (alternative)

→ Maltese: gurbell

From corvu (“crow”) + -eddu, because of its dark colour. Compare Italian corvello.


ripizzari

ripizzari (1 sing. present indicative ripezzu)

→ Albanian: ripecanj — Calabria

From ri- + pezza + -ari. Compare Italian rappezzare.


La Guardia

English: Laguardia

Italian: La Guardia, Laguardia

From la (“the”) + guardia (“watch, guard”).


iroi

From the accusative case of Latin hērōs (“hero”). Compare Italian eroe and Spanish héroe.


vaccaru

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin vaccārius.


lurdu

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lurdu (feminine singular lurda, masculine and feminine plural lurdi)

lurda (feminine singular)
lurdi (feminine masculine plural)
luddu (alternative)
loddu (alternative)

From Latin lūridus. Compare Italian lordo. Doublet of lordu.

Si' nu pezzu di cosa lurdu e ngrasciatu.


Caitanu

Derived from the demonym caitanu, from Caiēta + -ānus, ultimately from Latin Caiēta, from Ancient Greek Καιήτη (Kaiḗtē).

Gaitanu (alternative)
Jaitanu (alternative)

a male given name from Latin, feminine equivalent Caitana, equivalent to English Cajetan


jazzu

jazza (plural)
agghiazzu (alternative)
'gghiazzu (alternative)

>? Italian: Iaccio (surname)

From Vulgar Latin *iacium, from the same root of Latin iaceō (“I lie, recline”). Compare Italian giaccio (“pen for sheep”) (also diaccio and addiaccio) and Romanian jeț. Compare, for more, Italian Ajaccio and Sicilian Agghiazzu.

(for humans) bed on the ground, pallet-bed

(for animals) a bedding, a nest, a burrow.

A càmmira to pari u jazzu dî porci.

(by extension, figurative, colloquial) a dirty or very untidy place.


canzirru

canzirri (plural)
cansirru (alternative)


partugaḍḍu

partugaḍḍa (plural)
partugallu (alternative)
partuaddu (alternative)
partuallu (alternative)

From Partugaḍḍu (“Portugal”), possibly from Catalan (taronja de) Portugal. Compare Greek πορτοκάλι (portokáli), Ligurian portugô, Lombard portügàl,
Neapolitan portogallo (“purtuallo”),
Romagnol portogala, Venetan portogało.


jissu

jissa (plural)
ghissu (alternative)
issu (alternative)

From Latin gypsum. Compare Italian gesso.


-aju

From Latin -āticum (prossibly passing through an adstratum).
Compare Occitan -atge, French -age, Italian -atico/-aggio, Spanish -aje. Doublet of -aggiu, now prevalent.

-àticu (alternative)
-aggiu (alternative)
-agghiu (alternative)

passari (“stride”) + -aju → passaju (“passage”)

-age; forms nouns indicating an action or result related to the root verb

cumpanari (“to bread [with]”) + -aju → cumpanaju (“filling”)

-age; forms nouns indicating collection or appurtenance


bissinu

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *vissīnum. Doublet of pissinu.


pissinu

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *vissīnum, with the /p/ likely taken from the synonym pìditu. Doublet of bissinu.


Rijitanu

→ Italian: Reitano

→ English: Reitano

Surname derived from the demonym rijitanu (now mostly subseded by riggitanu), 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).

Rejitanu (alternative)
Reitanu (alternative)
Riitanu (alternative)


rijitanu

rijitanu (feminine singular rijitana, masculine and feminine plural rijitani)

rijitana (feminine singular)
rijitani (feminine masculine plural)
riggitanu (alternative)
rejitanu (alternative)
reitanu (alternative)
riitanu (alternative)

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).


rijitanu

rijitani (plural)
riggitanu (alternative)
rejitanu (alternative)
reitanu (alternative)
riitanu (alternative)

native or inhabitant of Reggio Calabria (usually male)


pòpulu

pòpuli (plural)
pòpula (plural)
populu (alternative)

→ Maltese: poplu


mulinciana

mulinciani (plural)
milinciana (alternative)
mulanciana (alternative)
milinzana (alternative)

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *molengena, from the metathesis of Medieval Latin melongena, ultimately from Arabic باذنجان, from Persian بادنجان.
Cognate with Italian melanzana, Greek μελιτζάνα (melitzána).

der

Arabic باذنجان

Persian بادنجان


caudu

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caudu (feminine singular cauda, masculine and feminine plural caudi)

cauda (feminine singular)
caudi (feminine masculine plural)
càvudu (alternative)
cauru (alternative)
càvuru (alternative)
callu (alternative)

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

Vidi ca l'acqua addivintau cauda.

Nun ti manciari i pipi ca su' caudi.

Do not eat sweet peppers they are “hot“.

said of food that is difficult to digest


caudu

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.

Nun stari ô caudu!

(uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.

Ora u caudu si senti.

(uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.

A ḍḍa cani ci vinni u caudu.

(uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.


Muncibbeḍḍu

→ Italian: Mongibello (toponym)

desc

→ Italian: Moncibello (surname), Mongibello (surname), Nuncibello (surname)

From munti + Arabic جَبَل (jabal), both meaning “mountain” and hence an etymogical tautology. Perhaps influenced in form by munticeḍḍu (< Latin monticellus).


munzeḍḍu

scn-noun

munzeḍḍu m (plural munzeḍḍi or munzeḍḍa)

munzeḍḍi (plural)
munzeḍḍa (plural)
munzeddu (alternative)
munzieḍu (alternative)
munziedu (alternative)
munzjedu (alternative)

Possibly influenced from Old French moncel, ultimately from Late Latin monticellus, diminutive of Latin mōns. Compare for more French monceau. Possibly Doublet of muzzu.

Iḍḍu 'n munzeḍḍu 'i cosi sapi.


jumentu

Inherited from Latin iūmentum. Doublet of jumenta.


giumentu

Alternative form of jumentu (“beast of burden”)


Palazzolu

From Late Latin Palatiolum, from palatium (“a palace; large residence”) + -olum (diminutive suffix). By surface analysis, palazzu + -olu. Possibly related and/or inherited from a gallo-norman stratum. Cognate with Italian Palazzolo.

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Palizzolu (alternative)
Palazzuolu (alternative)
Palazzolu Acrèiti (alternative)
Palazzolu 'Crèiti (alternative)
Palazzolu Acrèidi (alternative)

A town in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy: Palazzolo Acreide.

Palazzolo sull'Oglio
Palazzolo sull'Oglio

Palazzolo dello Stella
Palazzolo dello Stella

Palazzolo Vercellese
Palazzolo Vercellese

(toponym) Several places in Italy. The major are: Palazzolo sull'Oglio, Palazzolo dello Stella, Palazzolo Vercellese.


garanciu

garanci (plural)
agranciu (alternative)
granciu (alternative)
granchiu (alternative)

→ Maltese: granċ

Epenthetic variant of the earlier granciu. Possibly from an Occitan and/or Norman stratum, because of the palatalization and sonorization of the initial /k-/ sound. Ultimately from Latin cancer, cancrum (“crab”). Cognate with Catalan cranc/carranc, Occitan cranc, Galician cáncaro, (cángaro, cancro, cangrio), French chancre, Spanish cangrejo, Portuguese carango, Italian granchio, Venetan cancaro. Doublet of agranciu.


agranciu

agranci (plural)
agranc' (alternative)
garanciu (alternative)
granciu (alternative)
granchiu (alternative)

→ Maltese: granċ

Italian: Arancio (Italianized insular surname)

Dieresis of the earlier granciu. Possibly from an Occitan and/or Norman stratum, because of the sonorization of the initial /k-/ sound and of the palatalization. Ultimately from Latin cancer, cancrum (“crab”). Cognate with Catalan cranc/carranc, Occitan cranc, Galician cáncaro, (cángaro, cancro, cangrio), French chancre, Spanish cangrejo, Portuguese carango, Italian granchio, Venetan cancaro. Doublet of garanciu, otherwise just an orthographical variant of this latter. Compare the morphology of agriḍḍu for more.


majiḍḍa

majiḍḍi (plural)
maidda (alternative)
maida (alternative)
magiḍḍa (alternative)

From an earlier unattested Vulgar Latin *ma(g)id(u)la, from Latin magida, from Ancient Greek μαγίδα (magída), accusative of μαγίς (magís). Compare Italian màdia.


parrina

Influenced by an Occitan/Norman stratum, ultimately from Early Medieval Latin patrīna.

(South-East) female baptismal sponsor of one's child, a godmother


nìguru

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nìguru (feminine singular nìgura, masculine and feminine plural nìguri)

nìgura (feminine singular)
nìguri (feminine masculine plural)
nìvuru (alternative)
nìuru (alternative)
nìjiru (alternative)
nivuru (alternative)
niuru (alternative)
niiru (alternative)

desc

→ Italian: Nigro, Lo Nigro, Negro, Lo Niro, Loniro, Lo Nero, Lonero, De Niro, Deniro

From the epenthesis of Latin nigrum, accusative of niger. Compare Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish negro. Cfr. àguru and màguru for the morphology.

(colloquial, offensive by context) black; (dark-skinned person)

Affacciai â casa di Vastiana a nìgura.

I have been at Mrs. Vastiana the black's house.

Antura mi nni jìi nne Turi u nìguru.

(colloquial, Sicilian nciuria) black; (dark-skinned person)


zagurdu

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zagurdu (feminine singular zagurda, masculine and feminine plural zagurdi)

zagurda (feminine singular)
zagurdi (feminine masculine plural)
zavurdu (alternative)
zaurdu (alternative)
zauddu (alternative)
zauddo (alternative)
zagordu (alternative)
zavordu (alternative)

Uncertain. Possibly derived from/cognated with a Old Occitan/Celtiberian stratum. Compare Latin gurdus (“dolt, numbskull, blockhead, dullard”), Norman gourd (“numb maladroit”) for the -gurdu part; and Spanish zahúrda (“pigsty”). Cfr., for a similar morphology, Italian balordo, Spanish palurdo, or Italian manigoldo/mundualdo.

cog

(colloquial, derogatory) uncouth, ignorant, unsophisticated, tasteless, illiterate, clumsy, country bumpkin


zagurdu

zagurdi (plural)
zavurdu (alternative)
zaurdu (alternative)
zauddu (alternative)
zauddo (alternative)
zagordu (alternative)
zavordu (alternative)

→ Italian: zaurdo, zauddo (regional)

→ Italian: Zagordo, Zavordo

Talè chi cumminau ḍḍu zagurdu.

(colloquial, derogatory) hick, yokel, hillbilly, redneck (illiterate person, clumsy with no style or manners, an unskilled peasant)


toscu

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toscu (feminine singular tosca, masculine and feminine plural toschi)

tosca (feminine singular)
toschi (feminine masculine plural)
tostu (alternative)

Possibly Borrowed from Spanish tosco, ultimately from Vulgar Latin tuscus (literally “Etruscan, Tuscan”). Possibly conflated with tostu (otherwise this latter is a doublet). Cf. for more costa~cosca, jittari~jiccari, taḍḍarita~taḍḍarica.

inh

Ḍḍu picciriḍḍu è propia toscu.


sucari

sucari (infinitive)
sucannu (gerund)
sucatu (participle past)
sucu (first-person indicative present singular)
suci (indicative present second-person singular)
suca (indicative present singular third-person)
sucamu (first-person indicative plural present)
sucati (indicative plural present second-person)
suchanu (indicative plural present third-person)
suchunu (indicative plural present third-person)
sucava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sucavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sucavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sucava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sucàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sucàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sucàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sucàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sucai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
sucasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
sucau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
sucò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
sucammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
sucamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
sucàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
sucàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
sucaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
sucirò (first-person future indicative singular)
sucirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
sucirai (future indicative second-person singular)
sucirà (future indicative singular third-person)
suciremu (first-person future indicative plural)
sucireti (future indicative plural second-person)
suciriti (future indicative plural second-person)
sucirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
sucirìa (first-person indicative singular)
sucirissi (indicative second-person singular)
sucirìa (indicative singular third-person)
sucirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
sucirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
sucirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
sucu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
suci (present second-person singular subjunctive)
suca (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sucamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
sucati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
suchanu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
suchunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sucassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sucassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sucassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sucàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sucàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sucàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
suca (imperative second-person singular)
sucassi (imperative singular third-person)
sucamu (first-person imperative plural)
sucati (imperative plural second-person)

→ Italian: sucare

By surface analysis, sucu + -ari, otherwise derived from an unattested Vulgar Latin *sucare, ultimately from Latin sūcus (“juice”). Cognate with Italian succhiare and English suck.

(transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).

(transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.

(transitive) To inhale (air), to draw (breath).

(transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.

(transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.

(transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.

(colloquial, sometimes considered vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.


limunata

limunati (plural)
lumunata (alternative)
limunèa (alternative)

→ Maltese: luminata


oriu

From an earlier òrjiu, from Latin hordeum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥sdeyom (“bristly”). Cognate with Italian orzo. Compare with arjentu.


Vitu

desc

→ Italian: Vito (mostly of Southener use), Di Vito (surname), De Vito (surname), DeVito (surname), Sammito (surname)

Uncertain. Historically often related to the name of an early Sicilian martyr, as in Late Latin Vitus, borrowed from an unknown substrate, possibly from a Thracian one (suggested to mean "a person from Bithynia").
It seems possibly derived from the same root that gaves us English Guy and Italian Guido, which was rendered in Vitus; ultimately derived from the same cultural stratum of Proto-Celtic *widus (“wood”) or Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”).
If the sources were several, a conflation between these has possibly occurred.

a male given name, equivalent to English Guy or Vito


baḍḍa

baḍḍi (plural)
paḍḍa (alternative)
palla (alternative)

→ Italian: badda (regional)

Possibly from Medieval Latin balla, ultimately from Frankish *ballu, from Proto-Germanic *balluz.

(sports) ball (object used for playing games)

Chi vinisti pi scassari i baḍḍi?!

(usually in the plural, vulgar) i baḍḍi: testicles

Chi du' baḍḍi!

(informal, figurative) something dull or boring


stummu

→ Italian: stummo (regional)

Uncertain. Possibly from an unattested intermediate Vulgar Latin *stumbu(m), from Latin scomber, from Ancient Greek σκόμβρος (skómbros), which is, according to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.
Compare for more Italian sgombro, Spanish escombro.

Scomber scombrus
Scomber scombrus#Translingual


Dumìnica

Feminine of Late Latin Dominicus, derived from Latin dominicus, from dominus (“lord”, “master”) + -icus (“of”, “pertaining to”, “belonging to”, “connected with”). Cognate with French Dominique, Italian Domenica, Spanish Dominga.

suffix

Rumìnica (alternative)
Duminica (alternative)
Ruminica (alternative)

a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Dominique


sugattu

sugattu m needs inflection (canonical)
sugatta (plural)
suattu (alternative)

Cognate with Italian sogatto, see there for more.


currija

curriji (plural)
currìa (alternative)
curìa (alternative)
curria (alternative)
curia (alternative)

Passing through the intermediate *currijia, from Latin corrigia (“shoelace, tie”), from corrigō (“to smooth out,make straight”). Compare Sicilian correggia.


morbu

Inherited from Latin morbus (“illness”).


malatìa

malatìi (plural)
malatiei (plural)
malatia (alternative)

From malatu (“ill”) + -ìa (“derives abstract nouns denoting a state or condition from adjectives or nouns”), proceeding further is unclear. Cognate with English malady, French maladie, Italian malattia, Portuguese maladia and Catalan malaltia which, this latter, could be the borrowing source for this lemma.


zicca

Possibly borrowed from Lombardic zekka, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *tīkō. Compare German Zecke, Dutch teek, English tick, Italian zecca.

A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida, a tick.

Si' propia na zicca, làssami nnâ paci!

(figurative) pest, arsewipe (annoying person)


Magunza

From Medieval Latin Maguntia, ultimately from Mogontiacum, possibly of Celtic origin. Cognate with Italian Magonza and Monza, Catalan Magùncia, German Mainz, French Mayence, Portuguese Mogúncia, Galician and Spanish Maguncia .

Magonza (alternative)
Maunza (alternative)
Maonza (alternative)

(historical) Caltanissetta (a city and province of Sicily, Italy)


Calaxibbetta

Sicilian: Calascibbetta

Italian: Calascibetta

Borrowed from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa) and a not-well-attested element, namely said to be شِبِثّ (šibiṯṯ, “anise”). Doublet of Calascibbetta.

Calascibbetta (alternative)
Scibbetta (alternative)
Xibbetta (alternative clipping)


Calascibbetta

→ Italian: Calascibetta

Borrowed from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa) and a not-well-attested element, namely said to be شِبِثّ (šibiṯṯ, “anise”). Doublet of Calaxibbetta.

Scibbetta (alternative)
Calaxibbetta (alternative)
Xibbetta (alternative)


Xibbetta

Sicilian: Scibbetta

→ Italian: Scibetta

Clipping of Calaxibbetta. Doublet of Scibbetta.


vrisca

vrischi (plural)
virisca (alternative)
brisca (alternative)

Possibly derived from
an Occitan or Celtiberian stratum, ultimately, and possibly, of Celtic origin.
Compare Aragonese, Catalan, Occitan, and Spanish bresca.


brìscula

Unknown. Cfr. vrisca. Compare French brisque, Italian briscola, Portuguese bisca, Serbo-Croatian briškula.

(colloquial, humorous) knock, blow, slap


baulì

→ Italian: Baulì (regional)

Possibly from an earlier, and then apocoped, *baulivu, influenced by Norman bailli, from Vulgar Latin *baiulivus, extended from Latin baiulus. Compare
Old French bailif/baillif, Middle French bailly, English baillie, Italian balì.

(historical) a bailiff (his office and/or the related place of it).


bagghiu

→ Italian: baglio, Baglio

From Latin ballium, possibly from a previous Celtic stratum. Compare Old French baile, English bailey, Irish baile. Perhaps related to baulì.

(historical, architecture) A ancient building containing a courtyard or a yard.


vaḍḍu

From Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Cognate with Catalan val, Galician and Portuguese valo, Spanish valla, Italian vallo. Compare also English wall.

der

(historical, Ancient Rome) the wooden fence built at the top of a rampart

(historical, Ancient Rome, loosely) rampart, bulwark

(historical, Sicily) territorial division of the island of Sicily, administered and politically controlled through the so-called vaḍḍu/vallo system


pasciutu

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pasciutu m (feminine singular pasciuta, masculine and feminine plural pasciuti)

pasciuta (feminine singular)
pasciuti (feminine masculine plural)

→? Ottoman Turkish: پچوطه (peçuta)

past participle of pàsciri
well-fed, large, plump


pàsciri

(intransitive) to graze, pasture (of animals)

(reflexive) to be content with; to endure, accept [with di]


rasteddu

→ Maltese: rixtellu

(shoemaking) A wooden tool where shoes are attached.


nucipèrsicu

→ Maltese: nuċiprisk

Compare Italian noce pesca, pesca noce (“nectarine”), Venetan naspèrsego (“nectarine”). The term originally must have traditionally meant “nectarine” in Sicily as well, as also evidenced by Maltese nuċiprisk (“nectarine”), where it then got contaminated with the similar sounding cipressu (“cypress”), taking on its meaning.

Alternative form: nucipersu

Cupressus sempervirens
Cupressus sempervirens#Translingual

(Sicily) cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)

Alternative forms: nucipèrsica, nucipersa

Alternative forms: nucipèrzica, nucipèrzicu

Prunus persica var. nucipersica
Prunus persica#Translingual

(Calabria) nectarine (Prunus persica var. nucipersica)


filìnija

filìniji (plural)
fulìnija (alternative)
filinia (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
fulinia (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

Possibly conflated with the theme of filu (“thread”) (giving sense 2), through an intermediate *fuliniga, ultimately from the metathesis of Latin fūlīginem (“soot, lampblack”). Compare Italian fuliggine, Spanish hollín. Cfr., for the morphology, russànija, sartànija and vurrànija.

Ḍḍa sutta fici i filìniji.

(by extension, mainly plural, slang, figuratively) Unfulfilled (maily female) sexual desire.


liafanti

liafanti (plural)
alifanti (alternative)
lifanti (alternative)
liufanti (alternative)
elefanti (alternative)

→ Italian: leofante (regional)

From the metathesis of an earlier alifanti, from Latin elephantem. See lijatina for the morphology. Cognate with Italian elefante.


crèsia

cresi (plural)
cresia (alternative)
criesia (alternative)
crièsia (alternative)
crjesia (alternative)
crjèsia (alternative)

From Medieval Latin (e)clesia, ultimately from Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “assembly”). Cognate with Italian chiesa, Piedmontese cesa, Venetan ceza, Portuguese igreja, Occitan glèisa, Spanish iglesia, French église.

der

Dumìnica mi nni vaju â crèsia.


ummra

ummri (plural)
ùmmara (alternative)
ùmmira (alternative)

From Latin umbra. Cognate with Occitan, Catalan, and Italian ombra, Aragonese huembra, Aromanian umbrã, French ombre, Friulian ombre, Galician ombre.

Pari ca ti scanti 'i l'ummra toa.

It looks like you are frightened by your own shade.


cùnchiri

cùnchiri (infinitive)
cunchiennu (gerund)
cunchiutu (participle past)
cunchiu (first-person indicative present singular)
cunchi (indicative present second-person singular)
cunchi (indicative present singular third-person)
cunchiemu (first-person indicative plural present)
cunchiti (indicative plural present second-person)
cùnchinu (indicative plural present third-person)
cùnchiunu (indicative plural present third-person)
cunchìa (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
cunchivi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
cunchìa (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
cunchìamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
cunchìavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
cunchìanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
cunchivi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
cunchìi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
cunchisti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
cunchìu (indicative preterite singular third-person)
cunchiemmu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
cunchìstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
cunchieru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
cunchirìa (first-person indicative singular)
cunchirissi (indicative second-person singular)
cunchirìa (indicative singular third-person)
cunchirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
cunchirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
cunchirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
cunchiu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
cunchi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
cunchi (present singular subjunctive third-person)
cunchiemu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
cunchiti (plural present second-person subjunctive)
cùnchinu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
cùnchiunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
cunchissi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
cunchissi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
cunchissi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
cunchìssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
cunchìssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
cunchìssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
cunchi (imperative second-person singular)
cunchissi (imperative singular third-person)
cunchiemu (first-person imperative plural)
cunchiti (imperative plural second-person)
cùnciri (alternative)

Inherited from Latin compleō, complēre. Compare Italian compiere.


vuḍḍu

Possibly from an unattested Vulgar Latin *bullum, kind of masculinization of Latin bulla (“bubble”). Doublet of vugghiu.

(cooking) the cooking water while it is boiling


-ijari

-ijari (infinitive)
-ijannu (gerund)
-ijatu (participle past)
-iju (present singular)
-iji (present second-person singular)
-ija (present singular)
-ijamu (plural present)
-ijati (plural present)
-ijanu (plural present)
-ijunu (plural present)
-ijava (imperfect singular)
-ijavu (imperfect singular)
-ijavi (imperfect second-person singular)
-ijàvamu (imperfect plural)
-ijàvavu (imperfect plural)
-ijàvanu (imperfect plural)
-ijàvunu (imperfect plural)
-ijai (preterite singular)
-ijasti (preterite second-person singular)
-ijau (preterite singular)
-ijò (preterite singular)
-ijammu (plural preterite)
-ijamu (plural preterite)
-ijàstivu (plural preterite)
-ijàrunu (plural preterite)
-ijaru (plural preterite)
-ijirò (future singular)
-ijirogghiu (future singular)
-ijirai (future second-person singular)
-ijirà (future singular)
-ijiremu (future plural)
-ijireti (future plural)
-ijiriti (future plural)
-ijirannu (future plural)
-ijirìa (singular)
-ijirissi (second-person singular)
-ijirìamu (plural)
-ijirìavu (plural)
-ijirìanu (plural)
-ijassi (imperfect singular)
-ijassi (imperfect second-person singular)
-ijàssimu (imperfect plural)
-ijàssivu (imperfect plural)
-ijàssiru (imperfect plural)
-ija (imperative second-person singular)
-ijassi (imperative singular)
-ijamu (imperative plural)
-ijati (imperative plural)

Inherited from Late Latin -idiō, from Late Latin -izāre. Doublet of -izzari, which was borrowed.

cacareḍḍu (“diarrhea”) + -ijari → cacariḍḍijari (“to have the runs”)

ciàguru (“noise”) + -ijari → ciagurijari (“to sniff, smell”)

festa (“celebration”) + -ijari → fistijiari (“to celebrate”)

manu (“hand”) + -ijari → manijiari (“to handle”)

used to form verbs from adjectives or nouns


-uzzu

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-uzzu (feminine singular -uzza, masculine and feminine plural -uzzi)

-uzza (feminine singular)
-uzzi (feminine masculine plural)

From Latin -uceum/-ucium. Compare Italian -uccio, Romanian -uț.

beḍḍu (“beautiful”) + -uzzu → biḍḍuzzu (“pretty, sweet”)

granni (“big”) + -uzzu → grannuzzu (“biggish”)

nicu (“small”) + -uzzu → nicuzzu (“smallish”)

suffix used to form melioratives, diminutives, and hypocoristics


-azzu

-azzu (feminine singular -azza, masculine and feminine plural -azzi)

-azza (feminine singular)
-azzi (feminine masculine plural)

From Latin -aceum/-acium. Compare Catalan -às/-aci, Italian -azzo/-accio, Galician and Spanish -azo, Portuguese -aço, French -asse.

bonu (“good”) + -azzu → bunazzu (“way good”)

corpu (“blow”) + -azzu → curpazzu (“a great blow”)

piru (“pear”) + -azzu → pirazzu (“an impressive pear”)

sautu (“jump”) + -azzu → sautazzu (“an impressive jump”)

forms augmentatives of degree: nouns expressing a successful roughness

petra (“stone”) + -azzu → pitrazza (“a large stone”)

balata (“flagstone”) + -azzu → balatazza (“a large flagstone”)

Cristu (“Christ”) + -azzu → Cristazzu (“fucking Christ”)

Carmelu (“Carmelu”) + -azzu → Carmilazzu (“fucking Carmelu”)

Vastianu (“Sebastian”) + -azzu → Vastianazzu (“fucking Sebastian”)

vaneḍḍa (“alley”) + -azzu → vaniḍḍazza (“a bad alley”)

forms pejoratives: nouns expressing a negative characteric

Carmelu (“Carmelu”) + -azzu → Carmilazzu (“the great Carmelu”)

Vastianu (“Sebastian”) + -azzu → Vastianazzu (“the great Sebastian”)

forms augmentatives of praise: nouns expressing a slight adulation and/or admiration


lissìa

→ Maltese: lissija

Inherited from Latin lixīvia, from lixīvus. Compare Italian liscivia,
Portuguese lixívia,
Spanish lejía,
Sardinian lessìa.

liscìa (alternative)
lixìa (alternative)
lisìa (alternative)

Et a chò que lur belliza fussi plù semelianti a lu cisnu, illi se imblundianu li capilli cun lissia factata di ciniri acunza a fari chò.

c. 1321–37, Accurso di Cremona, Libru di Valeriu Maximu, L. 2, chapter 1, volume 1, page 53, line 32:

And in order to make their beauty more similar to a swan, they blondened their hair with lye prepared with ash, appropriate to do such thing [= the blondening].

pèrdiri l'affannu e la liscìa

to lose both breathlessness and laughter

Chi ci vinni, 'a lissìa?

What's up with him now, has he caught the giggles?

(figuratively) the giggles (fit of uncontrolled laughter)


fumeri

→ Italian: fumiere (regional)

From Old French femier, from Vulgar Latin *femārium, from *femus, alteration of Latin fimus. Compare the spelling of filìnija.

fumieri (alternative)
fumjeri (alternative)


coppu

→ Italian: coppino (regional)

Possibly from the masculinization of cuppa (“drinking vessel”) or from its doublet coppa. Cognate with Portuguese copo (“glass, vessel”).

(vessels) a container for food or drinks.

(food) a cone, often made of paper, to contain fried fish.


cubba

→ Italian: cuba, cubba, Cuba, Cubba (regional)

Uncertain. Possibly from Arabic قُبَّة (qubba, “small tower”), from Aramaic קוּבְּתָא / Classical Syriac ܩܘܼܒ݁ܬ݂ܵܐ (qubbəṯā). Possibly a widespread Mediterranean wanderwort, perhaps, related also to Latin cūpa (“cask, vat”) and/or Arabic قبعة (“cap, hood”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”), perhaps of substrate origin. Cognate with Portuguese cuba. Semantically akin to Sicilian còppula. Compare cappa.

bor

Aramaic קוּבְּתָא

(buildings) a Sicilian vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for storage and/or as a strategic observation point.


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

(by extension, of any plant) tendril; shoot


Niculosi

→ Italian: Nicolosi

→ English: Nicolosi

Inherited from Late Latin Nicolosius (with loss of the ending -us, like other Sicilian proper name ending in -ius (“suffix forming a nomen gentilicium”)), from Latin Nīcolāus, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos). The toponym is related to the local Aetnaean cult of Santa Nicola â rina (“St. Nicholas of the sand”; mis-Italianized as San Nicolò l'Arena, with elision, through hypercorrection, of the originale preposition). Compare, for more, the doublet Niculaci and the proper name Nicola.


ripusari

ripusari (infinitive)
ripusannu (gerund)
ripusatu (participle past)
ripusu (first-person indicative present singular)
ripusi (indicative present second-person singular)
ripusa (indicative present singular third-person)
ripusamu (first-person indicative plural present)
ripusati (indicative plural present second-person)
riposanu (indicative plural present third-person)
riposunu (indicative plural present third-person)
ripusava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ripusavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ripusavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
ripusava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
ripusàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
ripusàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
ripusàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ripusàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ripusai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
ripusasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
ripusau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
ripusò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
ripusammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
ripusamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
ripusàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
ripusàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
ripusaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
ripusirò (first-person future indicative singular)
ripusirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
ripusirai (future indicative second-person singular)
ripusirà (future indicative singular third-person)
ripusiremu (first-person future indicative plural)
ripusireti (future indicative plural second-person)
ripusiriti (future indicative plural second-person)
ripusirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
ripusirìa (first-person indicative singular)
ripusirissi (indicative second-person singular)
ripusirìa (indicative singular third-person)
ripusirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
ripusirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
ripusirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
ripusu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
ripusi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
ripusa (present singular subjunctive third-person)
ripusamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
ripusati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
riposanu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
riposunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
ripusassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
ripusassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
ripusassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
ripusàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
ripusàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ripusàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
ripusa (imperative second-person singular)
ripusassi (imperative singular third-person)
ripusamu (first-person imperative plural)
ripusati (imperative plural second-person)

From Late Latin repausāre, from Latin pausō.


pistiari

pistiàri (infinitive)
pistiannu (gerund)
pistiatu (participle past)
pistiu (first-person indicative present singular)
pistii (indicative present second-person singular)
pisti (indicative present second-person singular)
pistia (indicative present singular third-person)
pistiamu (first-person indicative plural present)
pistiati (indicative plural present second-person)
pistiava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
pistiavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
pistiavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
pistiava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
pistiàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
pistiàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
pistiàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
pistiàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
pistiai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
pistiasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
pistiau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
pistiò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
pistiammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
pistiamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
pistiàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
pistiàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
pistiaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
pistirò (first-person future indicative singular)
pistirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
pistirai (future indicative second-person singular)
pistirà (future indicative singular third-person)
pistiremu (first-person future indicative plural)
pistireti (future indicative plural second-person)
pistiriti (future indicative plural second-person)
pistirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
pistirìa (first-person indicative singular)
pistirissi (indicative second-person singular)
pistirìa (indicative singular third-person)
pistirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
pistirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
pistirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
pistiu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
pistii (present second-person singular subjunctive)
pisti (present second-person singular subjunctive)
pistia (present singular subjunctive third-person)
pistiamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
pistiati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
pistiassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
pistiassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
pistiassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
pistiàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
pistiàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
pistiàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
pistia (imperative second-person singular)
pistiassi (imperative singular third-person)
pistiamu (first-person imperative plural)
pistiati (imperative plural second-person)

/pɪst̪ɪˈaɾɪ/

(vulgar) to eat, to gorge, to eat voraciously


auceḍḍu

auceḍḍi (plural)
auceddu (alternative)
ancieḍḍu (alternative)
ancieddu (alternative)
acieḍḍu (alternative)
acieddu (alternative)
aceḍḍu (alternative)
aceddu (alternative)
oceḍḍu (alternative)
oceddu (alternative)

Italian: Augello

From Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”). Compare Italian uccello and Neapolitan auciello.


sòggiru

[ˈsɔdd͡ʒɪɾʊ]

From the sonorization of Latin socerus, variant of socer. Cf. also Gallo-Italic suoxer, which may have influenced it.


sicutari

sicutari (infinitive)
sicutannu (gerund)
sicutatu (participle past)
sicutu (first-person indicative present singular)
sicuti (indicative present second-person singular)
sicuta (indicative present singular third-person)
sicutamu (first-person indicative plural present)
sicutati (indicative plural present second-person)
sicutanu (indicative plural present third-person)
sicutunu (indicative plural present third-person)
sicutava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sicutavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sicutavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sicutava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sicutàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sicutàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sicutàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sicutàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sicutai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
sicutasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
sicutau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
sicutò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
sicutammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
sicutamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
sicutàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
sicutàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
sicutaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
sicutirò (first-person future indicative singular)
sicutirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
sicutirai (future indicative second-person singular)
sicutirà (future indicative singular third-person)
sicutiremu (first-person future indicative plural)
sicutireti (future indicative plural second-person)
sicutiriti (future indicative plural second-person)
sicutirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
sicutirìa (first-person indicative singular)
sicutirissi (indicative second-person singular)
sicutirìa (indicative singular third-person)
sicutirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
sicutirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
sicutirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
sicutu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sicuti (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sicuta (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sicutamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
sicutati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
sicutanu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sicutunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sicutassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sicutassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sicutassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sicutàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sicutàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sicutàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sicuta (imperative second-person singular)
sicutassi (imperative singular third-person)
sicutamu (first-person imperative plural)
sicutati (imperative plural second-person)

From Vulgar Latin *sequitāre (“follow”), from sequor (“to follow”) + -itō (frequentative suffix). See sequitus. Compare Italian seguitare.

(transitive) to continue (one's work or studies, a speech, etc.)

(intransitive, uncommon) to continue (in time or space) [auxiliary aviri]


Mènfrici

If not inherited from Latin Memphis, from Ancient Greek Μέμφις (Mémphis), the /ɾ/ could suggest an earlier borrowing from a relative of Egyptian mn:n-nfr-f:r-O24-niwt (mn-nfr, “Memphis”).

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">mn-nfr</i>


accapari

accapari (infinitive)
accapannu (gerund)
accapatu (participle past)
accapu (first-person indicative present singular)
accapi (indicative present second-person singular)
accapa (indicative present singular third-person)
accapamu (first-person indicative plural present)
accapati (indicative plural present second-person)
accapanu (indicative plural present third-person)
accapunu (indicative plural present third-person)
accapava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
accapavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
accapavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
accapava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
accapàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
accapàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
accapàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
accapàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
accapai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
accapasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
accapau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
accapò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
accapammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
accapamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
accapàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
accapàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
accaparu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
accapirò (first-person future indicative singular)
accapirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
accapirai (future indicative second-person singular)
accapirà (future indicative singular third-person)
accapiremu (first-person future indicative plural)
accapireti (future indicative plural second-person)
accapiriti (future indicative plural second-person)
accapirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
accapirìa (first-person indicative singular)
accapirissi (indicative second-person singular)
accapirìa (indicative singular third-person)
accapirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
accapirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
accapirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
accapu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
accapi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
accapa (present singular subjunctive third-person)
accapamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
accapati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
accapanu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
accapunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
accapassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
accapassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
accapassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
accapàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
accapàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
accapàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
accapa (imperative second-person singular)
accapassi (imperative singular third-person)
accapamu (first-person imperative plural)
accapati (imperative plural second-person)
accabbari (alternative)
'ccapari (alternative)
'ccabbari (alternative)
ccapari (alternative)
ccabbari (alternative)

Possibly influenced by a hiberic stratum, ultimately inherited from Vulgar Latin *accapāre. By surface analysis, a- + capu (“end, conclusion”) + -ari. Compare Neapolitan accapà,
Aragonese, Asturian, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish acabar.


vinticincu

From vinti (“twenty”) + cincu (“five”), ultimately from Latin vīgintī (“twenty”) and Latin quinque (“five”). Compare Italian venticinque, Catalan vint-i-cinc.

vinti-cincu (alternative)
vinti e cincu (alternative)


dumila

From dui (“two”) + milli (“thoousand”), ultimately from Latin duo (“two”) and mila (“thousands”). Compare Italian duemila.

du' mila (alternative)
du-mila (alternative)
du'-mila (alternative)


Giufà

Borrowed from Arabic جُحَا (juḥā), via Siculo-Arabic.

جُحَا جحا#Arabic

Hershel of Ostropol
w:Hershel of Ostropol

(folklore) A character in Sicilian folktales, a “village fool”, similar to the Arabic جُحَا (juḥā) and Maltese Ġaħan, similar also to the Turko-Persian Molla Nasreddin, the Jewish Hershel of Ostropol, the German Till Eulenspiegel, etc.


gurna

Italian: gorna (regional)

Italian: Gornalunga (toponym)

Possibly inherited from Ancient Greek γοῦρνα (goûrna), from Classical Syriac ܓܘܪܢܐ (gūrnā, “large vessel; coffin, sarcophagus”) or another Aramaic language. Unrelated to Latin urna (“urn”).

der

small body of water, similar to a small lake, but along the course of a river; typically along the Alcantara river.


-utu

frìjiri (“fry”) + -utu → frijutu (“fried”)

scimuniri (“to be stunned”) + -utu → scimunutu (“stunned”)

used with a stem to form the past participle of regular -iri verbs

corpu (“blow, stroke”) + -utu → curputu (“blockhead”)

punta (“point, tip”) + -utu → puntutu (“pointy, sharp”)

ntontu (“idiot”) + -utu → ntuntutu (“dipshidiot”)

used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun; -ed


ntamatu

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ntamatu (feminine singular ntamata, masculine and feminine plural ntamati)

ntamata (feminine singular)
ntamati (feminine masculine plural)


mammurianu

Univerbation of m'hâ mòr(iri) + -ianu (“-ian”), clipping of m'hâ mòriri me ma' (“may my mother eventually die”).

(Catania, slang, slightly derogatory) city braggart


mammurianu

mammurianu (feminine singular mammuriana, masculine and feminine plural mammuriani)

mammuriana (feminine singular)
mammuriani (feminine masculine plural)
mammorianu (alternative)

→ Italian: mammoriano (regional)

(slang, slight derogatory) uncouth, ignorant, unsophisticated person


anciḍḍa

anciḍḍi (plural)
'nciḍḍa (alternative)
nciḍḍa (alternative)
anghiḍḍa (alternative)
'nghiḍḍa (alternative)
nghiḍḍa (alternative)
'ncidda (alternative)
ncidda (alternative)
anghidda (alternative)
'nghidda (alternative)
nghidda (alternative)

From the palatalization of Latin anguilla,
from an earlier Proto-Italic *anɣʷis,
from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“water-worm, eel”). Compare Friulian anzile, Sardinian anguidda, Catalan and Spanish anguila.


Daiduni

→ Italian: Daidone

→ English: Daidone

Uncertain. From Gallo-Italic of Sicily Daiduni/Dadù, supposedly derived from an unattested Vulgar Latin *Aidon(em) – from which are derived Italian Aidone and Sicilian Aiduni – leading often to a Ancient Greek source referring to ᾍδης (Hā́idēs) or
Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis). The initial ⟨D⟩ could have yielded because of a now lost liquid article l' (“the”) placed in front of the toponym, then eventually hypercorrected by the non-Sicilian speakers.

Daduni (alternative)
Aiduni (alternative)


magara

magari (plural)
majara (alternative)
mavara (alternative)

→ Italian: magara, majara, mavara (regional)

→ Italian: Magaro, Mavaro (surnames)

Possibly inherited from an unattested substrate *magara, eventually cognate with
Ancient Greek Μέγαιρα (Mégaira), one of the Erinyes. Compare French mégère and Italian megera, which are borrowed front Ancient Greek.


pajisi

From Latin pāgēnsis, from pāgus (coutry, rural people) + -ēnsis.
Compare Catalan pagès
Franco-Provençal payis, Friulian paîs, Galician país, Istriot pais, Italian paese, Piedmontese pais, Romansch pajais, Venetan pajès, Welsh Powys


paguni

paguna (plural)
pajuni (alternative)
pavuni (alternative)

Italian: Paguni, Pagone, Pavone, Paone

English: Pavone

From Vulgar Latin *pagōne(m), from pāgus (coutry, rural people) + -ō.

(dated, toponymy) area outside of an urban one, countryside; rural community


mavara

→ Italian: mavara (regional)


pavuni

Italian: Pavone

English: Pavone


ghiruni

→ Maltese: ġurun

jiruni (alternative)
iruni (alternative)
giruni (alternative)
giriuni (alternative)


scimuniri

scimuniri (infinitive)
scimunennu (gerund)
scimunutu (participle past)
scimunu (first-person indicative present singular)
scimuni (indicative present second-person singular)
scimuni (indicative present singular third-person)
scimunemu (first-person indicative plural present)
scimuniti (indicative plural present second-person)
scimuninu (indicative plural present third-person)
scimununu (indicative plural present third-person)
scimunìa (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
scimunivi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
scimunìa (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
scimunìamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
scimunìavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
scimunìanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
scimunivi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
scimunìi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
scimunisti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
scimunìu (indicative preterite singular third-person)
scimunemmu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
scimunìstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
scimuneru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
scimunirìa (first-person indicative singular)
scimunirissi (indicative second-person singular)
scimunirìa (indicative singular third-person)
scimunirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
scimunirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
scimunirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
scimunu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
scimuni (present second-person singular subjunctive)
scimuni (present singular subjunctive third-person)
scimunemu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
scimuniti (plural present second-person subjunctive)
scimuninu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
scimununu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
scimunissi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
scimunissi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
scimunissi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
scimunìssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
scimunìssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
scimunìssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
scimuni (imperative second-person singular)
scimunissi (imperative singular third-person)
scimunemu (first-person imperative plural)
scimuniti (imperative plural second-person)

[with fari ‘to make’] to become stupefied, dazed or stunned


bisognu

→ Maltese: bżonn

Etymology tree
Frankish *bisunnijabor.
Vulgar Latin *bisonium
Sicilian bisognu
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *bisonium.

etymon

aviri bisognu di

fari li so bisogni


darreri

rarreri (alternative)
rarrè (alternative)
rarrjeri (alternative)
rarrieri (alternative)
'arreri (alternative)
arreri (alternative)
arrè (alternative)
arrjeri (alternative)
arrieri (alternative)
arredi (alternative)


darreri

darreri (plural)
darrera (plural)
rarreri (alternative)
rarrè (alternative)
rarrjeri (alternative)
rarrieri (alternative)
'arreri (alternative)
arreri (alternative)
arrè (alternative)
arrjeri (alternative)
arrieri (alternative)
arredi (alternative)

The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly:

Nun mi taliari u darreri.

(by extension, euphemistic) A person's buttocks.


casucavaḍḍu

casucavaḍḍi (plural)
cascavaddu (alternative)
casucavaddu (alternative)

→ Italian: cascavaddu

→ Ottoman Turkish: قاشقوال (kaşkaval) (see there for further descendants)

From casu (“cheese”) + cavaḍḍu (“horse”).

(countable and uncountable) caciocavallo (a type of cheese)


casucavaḍḍu

cascavaḍḍu (canonical)
cascavaḍḍi (plural)
cascavaddu (alternative)
casucavaddu (alternative)

Uncertain. Akin to Italian cacciaccavallo.


cavaḍḍu

→ Italian: cavaddu (regional)

From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”). Cognate with Corsican cavaddu and Sardinian cabaddu.


Àjita

Italian: Aita, sant'Aita (regional, eye dialect)

Dialectal variant of Àgata, ultimately from Latin Agatha, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαθή (Agathḗ), from Ancient Greek ἀγαθός (agathós, “good”). Cognate with Catalan Àgata and Àgueda, Italian Agata, Romagnol Êgta, Portuguese Ágata, Spanish Águeda.

Àgata (alternative)
Agata (alternative)
Ajita (alternative)
Aita (alternative)

a female given name from Latin, of historical and religious usage, equivalent to English Agatha


abbacari

abbacari (infinitive)
abbacannu (gerund)
abbacatu (participle past)
abbacu (first-person indicative present singular)
abbaci (indicative present second-person singular)
abbaca (indicative present singular third-person)
abbacamu (first-person indicative plural present)
abbacati (indicative plural present second-person)
abbacanu (indicative plural present third-person)
abbacunu (indicative plural present third-person)
abbacava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
abbacavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
abbacavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
abbacava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
abbacàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
abbacàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
abbacàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
abbacàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
abbacai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
abbacasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
abbacau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
abbacò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
abbacammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
abbacamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
abbacàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
abbacàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
abbacaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
abbacirò (first-person future indicative singular)
abbacirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
abbacirai (future indicative second-person singular)
abbacirà (future indicative singular third-person)
abbaciremu (first-person future indicative plural)
abbacireti (future indicative plural second-person)
abbaciriti (future indicative plural second-person)
abbacirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
abbacirìa (first-person indicative singular)
abbacirissi (indicative second-person singular)
abbacirìa (indicative singular third-person)
abbacirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
abbacirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
abbacirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
abbacu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
abbaci (present second-person singular subjunctive)
abbaca (present singular subjunctive third-person)
abbacamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
abbacati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
abbacanu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
abbacunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
abbacassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
abbacassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
abbacassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
abbacàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
abbacàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
abbacàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
abbaca (imperative second-person singular)
abbacassi (imperative singular third-person)
abbacamu (first-person imperative plural)
abbacati (imperative plural second-person)

Unknown. Potentially related to Sardinian abbacare (“to slow down”).


abbianchiari

abbianchiari (infinitive)
abbianchiannu (gerund)
abbianchiatu (participle past)
abbianchiu (first-person indicative present singular)
abbianchii (indicative present second-person singular)
abbianchia (indicative present singular third-person)
abbianchiamu (first-person indicative plural present)
abbianchiati (indicative plural present second-person)
abbianchianu (indicative plural present third-person)
abbianchiunu (indicative plural present third-person)
abbianchiava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
abbianchiavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
abbianchiavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
abbianchiava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
abbianchiàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
abbianchiàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
abbianchiàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
abbianchiàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
abbianchiai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
abbianchiasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
abbianchiau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
abbianchiò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
abbianchiammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
abbianchiamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
abbianchiàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
abbianchiàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
abbianchiaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
abbianchiirò (first-person future indicative singular)
abbianchiirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
abbianchiirai (future indicative second-person singular)
abbianchiirà (future indicative singular third-person)
abbianchiiremu (first-person future indicative plural)
abbianchiireti (future indicative plural second-person)
abbianchiiriti (future indicative plural second-person)
abbianchiirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
abbianchiirìa (first-person indicative singular)
abbianchiirissi (indicative second-person singular)
abbianchiirìa (indicative singular third-person)
abbianchiirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
abbianchiirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
abbianchiirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
abbianchiu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
abbianchii (present second-person singular subjunctive)
abbianchia (present singular subjunctive third-person)
abbianchiamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
abbianchiati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
abbianchianu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
abbianchiunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
abbianchiassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
abbianchiassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
abbianchiassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
abbianchiàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
abbianchiàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
abbianchiàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
abbianchia (imperative second-person singular)
abbianchiassi (imperative singular third-person)
abbianchiamu (first-person imperative plural)
abbianchiati (imperative plural second-person)


abbianchiatu

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abbianchiatu m (feminine singular abbianchiata, masculine and feminine plural abbianchiati)

abbianchiata (feminine singular)
abbianchiati (feminine masculine plural)


abbianchiatu

abbianchiatu (feminine singular abbianchiata, masculine and feminine plural abbianchiati)


abbianchiati

masculine/feminine plural of abbianchiatu


pinzeri

pinzera (plural)
pinzieru (alternative)
pinzjeru (alternative)
pinseri (alternative)
pinsieru (alternative)

Possibly Borrowed from Provençal pensier, likely from an unattested Vulgar Latin *pensarius, ultimately from Latin pēnsāre. Compare Italian pensiero.


nerbu

nerbi (plural)
nervu (alternative)
nierbu (alternative)
niervu (alternative)

From Latin nervus. Compare Italian nervo.

(anatomy) a sinew, tendon, nerve, muscle

(in the plural) One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche.

A Tinu ci vìnniru i nerbi.

(in the plural) Mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.

Si cuntìnui a fari d'accussì ti dugnu nu corpu di nerbu.

If you go on this way I going to hit you with the


sarbaggiu

sarbaggiu (feminine singular sarbaggia, masculine and feminine plural sarbaggi)

sarbaggia (feminine singular)
sarbaggi (feminine masculine plural)
sarbagghiu (alternative dialectal)

→ Italian: Salvaggio

Borrowed from Old French salvage, from Vulgar Latin salvāticus, ultimately from Latin silvāticus, from By surface analysis, silva (forest) + -aticus. Compare French sauvage, Romanian sălbatic, Italian selvaggio/selvatico.

surf

(generally) wild, untamed, free; belonging to nobody.

(by extension, quasi-derogatory) antisocial


Sarbaturi

From Latin Salvātōrem (“savior”). Compare Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish Salvador, French Sauveur and Italian Salvatore.

cog

Sabbaturi (alternative)
Sarvaturi (alternative)
Savvaturi (alternative)

(Epitet of Jesus) [with u ‘the’] Saviour/Savior


Sarbaturi

>? Italian: Salvatore, Salvadori

desc

Italian: Salvo, Sabbo, Savvo, Salvuccio, Sabbuccio, Savvuccio, Salvino, Ture, Tore (regional, Italianized endearing forms)

a male given name, equivalent to English Salvador, in honor of Christ as the Saviour/Savior


majurana

Inherited from Latin maiōrana. Compare Italian maggiorana.


Majurana

Italian: Majorana, Maiorana

English: Majorana

Ètturi Majurana, Sicilian physicist

(toponym) a place named after the presence of the homonymous plant


fascìsimu

Borrowed from Italian fascismo. By surface analysis, fasciu + -ìsimu.

Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition.

(by extension, derogatory) Any system of strong autocracy or oligarchy usually to the extent of bending and breaking the law, race-baiting, and/or violence against largely unarmed populations.

(figurative, derogatory) Any extreme reliance on or enforcement of rules and regulations.


â-

Generated after the crasis of one of the (“illiquid”) definite article u, a or i.

I jisti a 'ccattari ârancini.

I jisti a cògghiri âjiti.

(crasis of the definite article, colloquial) the, colloquial form of u, a, i when followers by a Word starting with a vowel


moḍḍu

head

moḍḍu (feminine singular moḍḍa, masculine and feminine plural moḍḍi)

moḍḍa (feminine singular)
moḍḍi (feminine masculine plural)
moddu (alternative)
moḍu (alternative)
muoḍu (alternative)
muoḍḍu (alternative)
muḍḍu (alternative)
mùaḍḍu (alternative)
modu (alternative)
muodu (alternative)
muoddu (alternative)
muddu (alternative)
mùaddu (alternative)

If not though Vulgar Latin *mollus, ultimately from Latin mollis. Compare Neapolitan muollo.


ìliu

iliu (alternative)
èliu (alternative)
eliu (alternative)


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


lìtiu

From New Latin lithium, from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”).


prègula

prèguli (plural)
priègula (alternative)
prjègula (alternative)
prèula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
preula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
prièula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
prjèula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

From the metathesis of Latin pergula. Cognate with Italian pergola, Spanish and Portuguese pérgola.

(viticulture) a framework that supports vine, a trellis


règula

règuli (plural)
riègula (alternative)
rjègula (alternative)
rèula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
reula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
rièula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
rjèula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

Inherited from Latin rēgula. Compare Italian regola, Spanish regla, Portuguese regra, French règle.

(tool, masonry) level (tool for finding whether a surface is level)


règula

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

riègula (alternative)
rjègula (alternative)
rèula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
reula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
rièula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
rjèula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

third-person singular present indicative

inflection of rigulari:
second-person singular imperative


furmìcula

Italian: Formica

Inherited from Late Latin formicula, otherwise and ultimately from furmica + -ula. Cognate with Italian formica-formicola, Corsican furmicula.


miduḍḍa

miduḍḍi (plural)
miruḍḍa (alternative)
midudda (alternative)

From Latin medulla. Compare Catalan moll, Spanish meollo, Portuguese miolo, Italian midollo.


nzèmmula

Because of morphophonology, likely borrowed from Old French ensemble (“together”), ultimately from Latin īnsimul (“together”). See also Italian insieme, French ensemble, Catalan ensems and Neapolitan nzieme.

Travagghiamu tutti nzèmula.


nzimmulata

(feminine) past participle of nzimmulari


nzimmulata

From etymology 1, conflated (semantically) with French assemblée, which is from the same source. More at nzèmmula.


muḍḍura

By surface analysis, moḍḍu + -ura, from Vulgar Latin *mollus, ultimately from Latin mollis.


pappajaḍḍu

pappajaḍḍi (plural)
pappajaddu (alternative)
pappagaḍḍu (alternative)
pappagaddu (alternative)
pappaiaḍḍu (alternative)
pappaiaddu (alternative)

Possibly from Byzantine Greek παπαγᾶς (papagâs), from Arabic بَبَغَاء (babaḡāʔ), of onomatopoeic origin. Perhaps influenced by gaḍḍu (“rooster”). Cognate with German Papagei, Italian pappagallo, Spanish papagayo, Catalan papagall, and English popinjay.

(colloquial) parrot (a person who repeats others' words and phrases without understanding them)


piḍḍigrinu

[pɪ.ɖɖɪˈɾi.nʊ]

From the dissimilation of Latin peregrīnus. Cognate to Italian pellegrino, English peregrine (“wandering”) and pilgrim.

(by extension, slightly derogatory) mean, stingy, miserly, tight-fisted