frìjiri

frijiri (infinitive)
frijennu (gerund)
frijutu (participle past)
friju (first-person indicative present singular)
friji (indicative present second-person singular)
friji (indicative present singular third-person)
frijemu (first-person indicative plural present)
frijiti (indicative plural present second-person)
frìjinu (indicative plural present third-person)
frìjunu (indicative plural present third-person)
frijìa (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
frijivi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
frijìa (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
frijìamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
frijìavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
frijìanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
frijivi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
frijìi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
frijisti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
frijìu (indicative preterite singular third-person)
frijemmu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
frijìstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
frijeru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
frijirìa (first-person indicative singular)
frijirissi (indicative second-person singular)
frijirìa (indicative singular third-person)
frijirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
frijirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
frijirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
friju (first-person present singular subjunctive)
friji (present second-person singular subjunctive)
friji (present singular subjunctive third-person)
frijemu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
frijiti (plural present second-person subjunctive)
frìjinu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
frìjunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
frijissi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
frijissi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
frijissi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
frijìssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
frijìssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
frijìssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
friji (imperative second-person singular)
frijissi (imperative singular third-person)
frijemu (first-person imperative plural)
frijiti (imperative plural second-person)
frìiri (alternative)
friri (alternative)
frìggiri (alternative)
friggiri (alternative)

From Latin frigere. Compare Italian friggere.


burgu

From Late Latin burgus, see there for more. Compare Italian borgo, Sardinian burgu, Catalan burg, French bourg, Galician and Portuguese burgo, Spanish burgo, German Burg, English borough.

(originally) A fort or castle, especially a smaller one; a watchtower.

(generally) A fortified town; a walled town.

(by extension) A borough: a town specially incorporated and with special rights.


quagliu

Alternative form of quagghiu (dialectal, italianized)


tirminali

terminal (of an airport, train station, etc.)


Pariggi

(Italianized variant) Alternative form of Parisi


Aparu

English: Aparo

Italian: Aparo


cuvernu

cuviernu (alternative)
guvernu (alternative)
guviernu (alternative)


sagrari

sagratu (participle past)
sagrari (infinitive)
sagrannu (gerund)
sagratu (participle past)
sagru (first-person indicative present singular)
sagri (indicative present second-person singular)
sagra (indicative present singular third-person)
sagramu (first-person indicative plural present)
sagrati (indicative plural present second-person)
sàgranu (indicative plural present third-person)
sàgrunu (indicative plural present third-person)
sagrava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sagravu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sagravi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sagrava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sagràvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sagràvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sagràvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sagràvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sagrai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
sagrasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
sagrau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
sagrò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
sagrammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
sagramu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
sagràstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
sagràrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
sagraru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
sagrirò (first-person future indicative singular)
sagrirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
sagrirai (future indicative second-person singular)
sagrirà (future indicative singular third-person)
sagriremu (first-person future indicative plural)
sagrireti (future indicative plural second-person)
sagririti (future indicative plural second-person)
sagrirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
sagrirìa (first-person indicative singular)
sagririssi (indicative second-person singular)
sagrirìa (indicative singular third-person)
sagrirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
sagrirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
sagrirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
sagru (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sagri (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sagra (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sagramu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
sagrati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
sàgranu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sàgrunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sagrassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sagrassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sagrassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sagràssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sagràssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sagràssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sagra (imperative second-person singular)
sagrassi (imperative singular third-person)
sagramu (first-person imperative plural)
sagrati (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Latin sacrō, sacrāre. By surface analysis, sagru (“sacred, holy”) + -ari.


jìditu

jìdita (plural)
jitu (alternative)
jìritu (alternative)

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


zùccaru

zùccuru (alternative)
zùcchiru (alternative)
zuccaru (alternative)
zuccuru (alternative)


Zuccaru

→ English: Zuccaro

→ Italian: Zuccaro

Zùccaru (alternative)
Zuccaro (alternative)
Zucchero (alternative)


ciatu

ciati (plural)
çatu (alternative)
çiatu (alternative)
sciatu (alternative)
xiatu (alternative)

→ Italian: ciato, sciato

From Latin flātus, from flāre (“to blow”).

Marìa, a figghia cchiù nica, è u me ciatu.

Maria, my youngest daughter, is my darling.

Mâ passassi-tu a buttigghia di l'acqua, ciatu?

Would you pass me the bottle of water, dear?.


ciatu

çatu (alternative)
çiatu (alternative)
sciatu (alternative)
xiatu (alternative)

first-person singular present indicative of ciatari


ràpiri

ràpiri (infinitive)
rapennu (gerund)
raputu (participle past)
rapu (first-person indicative present singular)
rapi (indicative present second-person singular)
rapi (indicative present singular third-person)
rapemu (first-person indicative plural present)
rapiti (indicative plural present second-person)
ràpinu (indicative plural present third-person)
ràpunu (indicative plural present third-person)
rapìa (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
rapivi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
rapìa (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
rapìamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
rapìavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
rapìanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
rapivi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
rapìi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
rapisti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
rapìu (indicative preterite singular third-person)
rapemmu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
rapìstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
raperu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
rapirìa (first-person indicative singular)
rapirissi (indicative second-person singular)
rapirìa (indicative singular third-person)
rapirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
rapirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
rapirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
rapu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
rapi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
rapi (present singular subjunctive third-person)
rapemu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
rapiti (plural present second-person subjunctive)
ràpinu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
ràpunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
rapissi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
rapissi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
rapissi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
rapìssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
rapìssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
rapìssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
rapi (imperative second-person singular)
rapissi (imperative singular third-person)
rapemu (first-person imperative plural)
rapiti (imperative plural second-person)
gràpiri (alternative)
àpriri (alternative)
jàpriri (alternative)
apriri (alternative)

Generally perceived, and treated by speakers, as it derived from an unattested, and highly unexplained, *gràpiri. In any case from the metathesis of Vulgar Latin *aprō, from Latin aperīre. The irregular lack of /ʐ/ on the initial ⟨r⟩ can be explained by the fact that the consonant is moved by metathesis, coming from a position within the morpheme. No similar phonetic phenomena appear to be attested. This could also explain why some dialects perceive the word as having a /ɡ/~[ɣ] sound before the ⟨r⟩ and why other dialects (which perceive most of the ⟨gr-⟩ nexus simply as /ɾ/) perform, after a stressed syllable placed before the term, a phonosyntactic doubling of the initial ⟨r⟩, yielding /dː/.

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


zàgara

zàgari (plural)
zàjira (alternative)
zagara (alternative)
zàara (alternative)
zara (alternative)

Italian: zagara

From Arabic زَهْرَة (zahra, “flower, blossom”), from the same root as زَهَرَ (zahara, “to shine, to sparkle white”). Cognate to Spanish azahar and Galician azar.

der

an orange blossom or, rarely, any citrus tree blossom


partugallu

partugalla (plural)
portugallu (alternative)
purtugallu (alternative)
portogallu (alternative)
partuallu (alternative)
pattuallu (alternative)

Borrowed from Catalan [taronja de] Portugal.


cuḍḍura

English: Collura

Italian: Collura

From Ancient Greek κολλύρα (kollúra), further etymology is unknown.
Cognate with Greek κουλούρα (kouloúra)/κουλούρι (kouloúri), Persian کلیچه (količe), Russian кулич (kulič). Compare for more Ancient Greek κόλλῐξ (kóllĭx).


agriḍḍu

agriḍḍi (plural)
gariḍḍu (alternative)
griḍḍu (alternative)
griddu (alternative)
grillu (alternative)
ariddu (alternative)
aridu (alternative)

Sicilian: Agriḍḍu

Italian: Agrillo, Grillo

English: Agrillo, Grillo

sleep (viscous substance found in the corner of the eye after sleeping)


pùippu

Alternative form of purpu (Iotization of the r)


cacòcciula

cacòcciuli (plural)
cacòcciulu (alternative)
carciòffula (alternative)

→ Italian: Cacocciola

→ Maltese: qaqoċċ

From older Sicilian *cacoccia, from Arabic خُرْشُوف (ḵuršūf). Based on the forms *carsoffa (*carsòffula) that gave palatized *carcioffa (carciòffula), then another metathetic *carcoccia (carcòcciula). Compare Spanish alcachofa, Portuguese alcachofra, Catalan carxofa, Italian carciofo.

bor

Arabic خُرْشُوف (ḵuršūf)


cacòcciulu

scn-noun

cacòcciulu m (plural cacòcciuli or cacòcciula)


scifu

scifi (plural)
ciffu (alternative)
sciffu (alternative)

Through Latin scyphus (“cup”), ultimately from Ancient Greek σκῠ́φος (skŭ́phos). Compare Italian scifo and English scyphus.

(agriculture) small limestone feeder, often reserved for pigs.


Scifu

Italian: Scifo

From the Sicilian scifu (“container, vessel”).


dieri

English: dieri

Italian: dieri

From Arabic ديار (diyār), plural of دَار (dār, “house, building, structure”).

(architecture) Sicilian rupestrian house carved into the limestone rock, found on the Hyblaean Mountains.


aḍḍevu

aḍḍivari (infinitive)
aḍḍivannu (gerund)
aḍḍivatu (participle past)
aḍḍivu (first-person indicative present singular)
aḍḍivi (indicative present second-person singular)
aḍḍiva (indicative present singular third-person)
aḍḍivamu (first-person indicative plural present)
aḍḍivati (indicative plural present second-person)
aḍḍevanu (indicative plural present third-person)
aḍḍevunu (indicative plural present third-person)
aḍḍivava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
aḍḍivavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
aḍḍivavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
aḍḍivava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
aḍḍivàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
aḍḍivàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
aḍḍivàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
aḍḍivàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
aḍḍivai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
aḍḍivasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
aḍḍivau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
aḍḍivò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
aḍḍivammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
aḍḍivamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
aḍḍivàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
aḍḍivàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
aḍḍivaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
aḍḍivirò (first-person future indicative singular)
aḍḍivirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
aḍḍivirai (future indicative second-person singular)
aḍḍivirà (future indicative singular third-person)
aḍḍiviremu (first-person future indicative plural)
aḍḍivireti (future indicative plural second-person)
aḍḍiviriti (future indicative plural second-person)
aḍḍivirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
aḍḍivirìa (first-person indicative singular)
aḍḍivirissi (indicative second-person singular)
aḍḍivirìa (indicative singular third-person)
aḍḍivirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
aḍḍivirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
aḍḍivirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
aḍḍivu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
aḍḍivi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
aḍḍiva (present singular subjunctive third-person)
aḍḍivamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
aḍḍivati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
aḍḍevanu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
aḍḍevunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
aḍḍivassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
aḍḍivassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
aḍḍivassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
aḍḍivàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
aḍḍivàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
aḍḍivàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
aḍḍiva (imperative second-person singular)
aḍḍivassi (imperative singular third-person)
aḍḍivamu (first-person imperative plural)
aḍḍivati (imperative plural second-person)
addevu (alternative)

From Latin allevō. Compare Italian allevare.

first-person singular present indicative of aḍḍivari


aḍḍevu

From Vulgar Latin *allevus, from Latin allevo. Compare Italian allievo.


baccalaru

From Dutch bakkeljauw, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *baccalarium (“the place of the [wooden] stick”), Latin baculum (“stick, staff”), referring to the way cod were split and dried on wooden sticks.
If the element *bak- is a metathesis of *kab- (compare French cabillaud and German Kabeljau from Dutch kabeljauw), then the original form of the word could have been *cabalao, maybe meaning "large-headed fish" (cf. Ibero-Romance words, such as Spanish cabo, cabal, from Latin caput (“head”)).
Cognate to Catalan bacallà, Portuguese bacalhau, Spanish bacalao.

der

Mi fici tuccari u baccalaru!

(vulgar, slang) The female genitalia; the vulva and/or vagina.


cavuliceḍḍu

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

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

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

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

1875, Pitrè, Fiabe vol. 1, XIX Lu Scavu era un cavuciliḍḍaru (sic.),[…] jennu a cavuliceḍḍi, nun avìa pututu truvari mancu un filu d'erba (a broccoli-rabe-gatherer[…] searching for broccoli-rabe could not find a single leaf of the herb.)

generally any such edible plant, cultivated or gathered in the wild.


càvulu

càvuli (plural)
càvula (plural)
caulu (alternative)
cavulu (alternative)
càulu (alternative)

From Late Latin caulus, Latin caulis (“stem, cabbage”), or from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós). Compare Italian cavolo.


cavuliciḍḍaru

cavuliciḍḍari (plural)
cauliciḍḍaru (alternative)
cavulicciḍḍaru (alternative)
cauliciddaru (alternative)

From cavuliceḍḍu (“cole”) + -aru (“suffix fro agent nouns”), from càvulu, Late Latin caulus, Latin caulis (“stem, cabbage”).

suffix

1875, Pitrè, Fiabe vol. VII, glossary, p. 316

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

cavuliciḍḍaru or cauliciḍḍaru, i. a., s.m. cugghituri o vinnituri di cavuliceḍḍi e di autri erbi sarbaggi.

more generally a forager from the wild, or a peddler of, edible herbaceous plants, esp. of the family Brassicaceae (coles, mustards, rapes)


ciagurari

ciagurari (infinitive)
ciagurannu (gerund)
ciaguratu (participle past)
ciaguru (first-person indicative present singular)
ciaguri (indicative present second-person singular)
ciagura (indicative present singular third-person)
ciaguramu (first-person indicative plural present)
ciagurati (indicative plural present second-person)
ciagurava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ciaguravu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ciaguravi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
ciagurava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
ciaguràvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
ciaguràvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
ciaguràvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ciaguràvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ciagurai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
ciagurasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
ciagurau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
ciagurò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
ciagurammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
ciaguramu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
ciaguràstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
ciaguràrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
ciaguraru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
ciagurirò (first-person future indicative singular)
ciagurirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
ciagurirai (future indicative second-person singular)
ciagurirà (future indicative singular third-person)
ciaguriremu (first-person future indicative plural)
ciagurireti (future indicative plural second-person)
ciaguririti (future indicative plural second-person)
ciagurirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
ciagurirìa (first-person indicative singular)
ciaguririssi (indicative second-person singular)
ciagurirìa (indicative singular third-person)
ciagurirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
ciagurirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
ciagurirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
ciaguru (first-person present singular subjunctive)
ciaguri (present second-person singular subjunctive)
ciagura (present singular subjunctive third-person)
ciaguramu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
ciagurati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
ciagurassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
ciagurassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
ciagurassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
ciaguràssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
ciaguràssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ciaguràssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
ciagura (imperative second-person singular)
ciagurassi (imperative singular third-person)
ciaguramu (first-person imperative plural)
ciagurati (imperative plural second-person)
çagurari (alternative)
çavurari (alternative)
çaurari (alternative)
çaurijari (alternative)
çauriari (alternative)
çarari (alternative)
çârari (alternative)
ciarari (alternative)
ciârari (alternative)
ciavurari (alternative)
ciairari (alternative)
ciavirari (alternative)
sciaurari (alternative)
sciairari (alternative)
sciarari (alternative)
ciaurijari (alternative)
ciauriari (alternative)

[ça.ʊˈɾa.ɾɪ]

From Vulgar Latin *flag(u)rare, from Late Latin flāgrāre, by dissimilation from Latin frāgrō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₂gro-, from *bʰreh₂g- (“to smell”) + *-ro-. By surface analysis, ciàguru (“scent”) + -ari. Compare Occitan flairar, Catalan flairar, French flairer, Portuguese cheirar.

surf

(transitive) to smell (sense the smell of)

(intransitive) to smell (have a particular smell)


parrinu

→ Italian: Parrino

From an Occitan/Norman stratum (compare Old French pere), ultimately from Early Medieval Latin patrīnus.

(South-East) male baptismal sponsor of one's child, a godfather


vucceri

→ Maltese: biċċier

Borrowed from Old French bouchier, from bouc + -ier; compare English butcher.

bucceri (alternative)
buccieri (alternative)
ucceri (alternative)
vuccieri (alternative)


spacchiu

→ Italian: spacchio

(obsolete, slang, vulgar, uncountable) Female ejaculatory discharge.

(obsolete, vulgar, uncountable) An ejaculation.

Ma chi spacchiu ni sacciu?!

(vulgar, colloquial) Used as a placeholder.

Chi spacchiu voi?

(vulgar, colloquial) An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically modifies.

Leva ssa spacchiu di màchina di 'n menzu â strata!

(vulgar) (+ di) Offensive, annoying or worthless.

Nun fari spacchiu!

(slang, vulgar, uncountable) Ostentation; ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.


viḍḍicu

viḍḍichi (plural)
viḍḍica (plural)
miḍḍicu (alternative)
middicu (alternative)

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


feḍḍa

feḍḍi (plural)
fedda (alternative)
feda (alternative)

From Late Latin (of)fella, from Latin offa (“a morsel, a piece”). Cognate with Greek φελλί (fellí) and Romanian felie.
Compare also Italian fetta.

Talè, chi feḍḍa di sticchiu!


chìffili

Borrowed from German Kipfl (“croissant”) by Sicilian immigrants in Switzerland, which renders it as a doublet of zìppula.


gruppu

gruppa (plural)
'ruppu (alternative)
ruppu (alternative)

Derived from Vulgar Latin *cruppus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, group, body, crop”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”).

der

group (of friends), cluster, party, team


çiàguru

çiaguru (canonical masculine)
çiaguri (plural)


hiàguru

hiaguru (canonical masculine)
hiaguri (plural)


c'un

Contraction of cu un (“with a, with an”).


ntr'un

Contraction of ntra un (“between a, between an”).


donni di casa

From donni di casa (“masters of the house”). Compare Spanish duen de casa (“master of the house”). See more at doñas de fuera, Sicilian donni di fora, Latin Lares.

cog

donni 'i casa (alternative)
ronni 'i casa (alternative)
ronni di casa (alternative)

(Sicilian folklore) Supernatural creatures of Sicilian superstition and folklore, typically female, who invaded the streets and homes at night to carry out mischief and scare the residents.


ciraulu

cirauli (plural)
ciraula (plural)
ciràvulu (alternative)
ciaraulu (alternative)
ciaràvulu (alternative)

desc

Italian: Ceravola, Ceravolo, Ciraulo, Ciravola, Ciravolo, Ciaravola, Ciaravolo

From Ancient Greek κεραύλης (keraúlēs, “horn-blower”), from κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + αὐλός (aulós, “any pipe-shaped instrument”) + -ης (-ēs, “adjectival suffix”).

der

(Sicilian folklore) in the religious cult of St. Paul, in Palazzolo Acreide, a healer and thaumaturge able to cure snake bites

(Sicilian folklore) those born in the night between 24 and 25 January, who can heal snake bites


cuccumeli

cuccumeli (plural)
millicuccu (alternative)
minicuccu (alternative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοκκύμηλον (kokkúmēlon), from κόκκῠξ (kókkŭx, “cuckoo”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple, any fruit from a tree”). The ending in -i could be a consequence of contamination with meli (“honey”).


pìditu

pìditi (plural)
pìdita (plural)
pìritu (alternative)


pìritu

pìriti (plural)
pìrita (plural)
piritu (alternative)
piditu (alternative)


cànnavu

cànnavi (plural)
cànnava (plural)
cànnava (alternative)

From Late Latin cannabum (or cānabum), from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis); see there for more. Doublet of cannabis. Compare Italian canapa and English canvas.

Cannabis sativa
Cannabis sativa#Translingual

(collective) the fibers of the hemp plant


cànnava

cànnavi (plural)
cànnava (plural)
cànnavu (alternative)

From Late Latin cannaba (or cānaba), from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis); see there for more. Doublet of cannabis. Compare Italian canapa and English canvas.


coḍḍa

coḍḍi (plural)
codda (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
coda (alternative lenition)

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).


coḍḍa

From Vulgar Latin *colla, from Latin cucūlla, variant of Latin cucūllus. Compare Latin culus and French coule.http://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/COLLAhttp://ducange.enc.sorbonne.fr/CUCULLUS1#CUCULLUS1-2

A coḍḍa 'i mònacu


maugeri

From Vulgar Latin *malgere(m), from Latin malga. Compare Italian malgaro and Sicilian marga.


mauceri

(Desonorized) Alternative form of maugeri


Ciaramidaru

English: Ciaramitaro

Italian: Ciaramitaro

From Sicilian ciaramidaru (“one who makes the roof tiles”), from ciaramida (“roof tile”), from Byzantine Greek κεραμίδα (keramída), from Ancient Greek κερᾰμῐ́ς (kerămĭ́s), from κέρᾰμος (kérămos, “pottery”) + -ίς (-ís).


ciaramidaru

ciaramidarui (canonical masculine)
ciaramitaru (alternative)
ciaramiraru (alternative)

English: Ciaramitaro

Italian: Ciaramitaro

From ciaramida (“roof tile”), from Byzantine Greek κεραμίδα (keramída), from Ancient Greek κερᾰμῐ́ς (kerămĭ́s), from κέρᾰμος (kérămos, “pottery”) + -ίς (-ís).


ciaramida

ciaramidi (plural)
ciaramita (alternative)
ciaramira (alternative)

From Byzantine Greek κεραμίδα (keramída), from Ancient Greek κερᾰμῐ́ς (kerămĭ́s), from κέρᾰμος (kérămos, “pottery”) + -ίς (-ís).


soccu

Dialectal desonorized variant of zoccu, from Vulgar Latin *(e)cc(e) hoc, from ecce (“here!”) + hoc (“this”). Compare Italian ciò.

zoccu (alternative)
nzoccu (alternative)

Soccu vota cci jemu.


soccu

Soccu voi?

Addumànnaci soccu vonu.

(interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.

Iḍḍu sapi soccu voli

(fused relative) That which; those that; the thing(s) that.

Fazzu soccu pozzu p'ajutàriti.

Soccu è meu è tou

(fused relative) Anything that; all that; whatever.


nzoccu

From 'n (“in”) + zoccu (“some”) (or 'n + soccu), from Late Latin ecce hoc, from ecce (“here!”) + hoc (“this”). Compare Italian ciò.


soccadunu

soccaduna (feminine)
soccarunu (alternative)

From soccu (“some”) + unu (“one”). Compare Sicilian coccadunu and Italian qualcheduno.


coccadunu

coccaduna (feminine)
coccarunu (alternative)

From an unattested Vulgar Latin *caurcadunu, the metathesis and regressive assimilation of Vulgar Latin *qualqua(m) (from qualis (“of such kind as”) + quam (“how, as”)) + unus. Doublet of quarcadunu. Compare Sicilian soccadunu and Italian qualcheduno.


crignu

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

(vulgar, colloquial) a raised middle finger


muniḍḍu

muniḍḍi (plural)
muneḍḍu (alternative)
moneḍḍu (alternative)
monellu (alternative)

Uncertain. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *monē(d)la, from Latin monēdula (“jackdaw (daw)”). Compare Italian monello.

(Referred to children) rascal, scoundrel

Veni cca, muniḍḍa!

(Referred to cats, only feminine) kitty, pussycat


stiḍḍa

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

→ Italian: Stidda

→ Maltese: stilla

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

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

(geometry) A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or six points.

Marìa, a figghia cchiù nica, era sempri a so stiḍḍa.

Mary, the youngest daughter, was always her darling.

A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.

Stiḍḍa ca curri.

(astrology) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.

(Organized crime) The Stiḍḍa, a Mafia-type criminal organization centered in the central-southern part of Sicily.

A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.


stiḍḍa

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

Stiḍḍa 'i to soru!

(mildly vulgar) An expression of surprise, outrage, or frustration.


còppula

→ English: Coppola

→ Italian: coppula, coppola, Coppola

From Vulgar Latin coppa (“cup”), from Latin cuppa.


ncignari

ncignari (infinitive)
ncignannu (gerund)
ncignatu (participle past)
ncignu (first-person indicative present singular)
ncigni (indicative present second-person singular)
ncigna (indicative present singular third-person)
ncignamu (first-person indicative plural present)
ncignati (indicative plural present second-person)
ncignava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ncignavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ncignavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
ncignava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
ncignàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
ncignàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
ncignàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ncignàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ncignai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
ncignasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
ncignau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
ncignò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
ncignammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
ncignamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
ncignàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
ncignàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
ncignaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
ncignirò (first-person future indicative singular)
ncignirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
ncignirai (future indicative second-person singular)
ncignirà (future indicative singular third-person)
ncigniremu (first-person future indicative plural)
ncignireti (future indicative plural second-person)
ncigniriti (future indicative plural second-person)
ncignirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
ncignirìa (first-person indicative singular)
ncignirissi (indicative second-person singular)
ncignirìa (indicative singular third-person)
ncignirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
ncignirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
ncignirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
ncignu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
ncigni (present second-person singular subjunctive)
ncigna (present singular subjunctive third-person)
ncignamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
ncignati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
ncignassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
ncignassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
ncignassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
ncignàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
ncignàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ncignàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
ncigna (imperative second-person singular)
ncignassi (imperative singular third-person)
ncignamu (first-person imperative plural)
ncignati (imperative plural second-person)
ngignari (alternative)

From Latin encaeniare (“usher in a dress, consecrate”). Compare Italian incignare.

inh

U staju ncignannu


zazzamita

zazzamiti (plural)
zazzamira (alternative)
tuzzumita (alternative)

From Byzantine Greek σαμαμίθιον (samamíthion), a diminutive of σαμιάμινθος (samiáminthos). Compare Greek σαμιαμίδι (samiamídi).

der

Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces.


movimentu

muvimentu (alternative)
muvumentu (alternative)


spaḍḍa

From Vulgar Latin *spatla, from Late Latin spatula, from classical Latin spatha (“straight sword”).


caḍḍusu

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caḍḍusu (feminine singular caḍḍusa, masculine and feminine plural caḍḍusi)

caḍḍusa (feminine singular)
caḍḍusi (feminine masculine plural)
caddusu (alternative)
caḍḍosu (alternative)
callusu (alternative)

From Latin callōsus, from callus (“solid, tough, hard, thick”).

Sta pasta 'i casa beḍḍa caḍḍusa è.

(food) Of food that has a hard and tender consistency at the same time, almost cartilaginous; doughy


caḍḍu

caḍḍi (plural)
caddu (alternative)
callu (alternative)

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

inh

The hardened, thick skin upon animal bodies, hide.

(figuratively) Hardness, callousness, insensibility, stupidity.


nzagareḍḍa

nzagareḍḍi (plural)
nzareḍḍa (alternative)
nzaareḍḍa (alternative)
nzajareḍḍa (alternative)
nzaredda (alternative)
nzaaredda (alternative)
nzajaredda (alternative)

Italian: nzareddi

/nˌt͡saːˈɾɛɖ.ɖa/

From 'n + zàgara (“orange blossom”) + -eḍḍu (diminutive suffix), from Arabic زَهْرَة (zahra, “flower, blossom”).

der

(eastern Sicily) Rolled and colored paper strips, used during religious folk festivals, generally thrown through mortars in front of spectators.

Any object that once closed can later figuratively blossom


nzareḍḍa

nzareḍḍi (plural)
nzaareḍḍa (alternative)
nzajareḍḍa (alternative)
nzaredda (alternative)
nzaaredda (alternative)
nzajaredda (alternative)
nzareḍḍu (alternative)
nzareddu (alternative)

Italian: nzareddi (masculine plural)

/nˌt͡saːˈɾɛɖ.ɖa/


nzajareḍḍa

nzajareḍḍi (plural)
nzaareḍḍa (alternative)
nzareḍḍa (alternative)
nzaredda (alternative)
nzaaredda (alternative)
nzajaredda (alternative)
nzareḍḍu (alternative)
nzareddu (alternative)

Italian: nzareddi (masculine plural)


nzagareḍḍi

nzajareḍḍi (alternative)
nzareḍḍi (alternative)
nzareddi (alternative)


Cutrona

→ English: Cutrona

→ Italian: Cutrona, Tutrone

From Vulgar Latin *Cōtrona, from the metathesis of the accusative of Ancient Greek Κρότων (Krótōn).


javiu

Ioticized dialectal variant of an earlier gàuju (with the fricatization of the intermediate semiconsonants /ˈjaw.j(i).ʊ/ < /ˈja.vjʊ/), from an older unattested form *ga(u)j(i)u, from Latin gaudium (“joy”). Cognate with Portuguese goivo and Sardinian gaju.

Trìvulu 'n cumuni e menzu javiu.

(Prevalent in Eastern Sicily) joy, delight


mònacu

mònachi (plural)
mònicu (alternative)
mònucu (alternative)


àjiru

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àjiru (feminine singular àjira, masculine and feminine plural àjiri)

àjira (feminine singular)
àjiri (feminine masculine plural)
àguru (alternative)
àvuru (alternative)
àuru (alternative)
àiru (alternative)
jàuru (alternative)
jàjiru (alternative)

(Unstressed ⟨u⟩ tends to /ɪ/)) Alternative form of àguru


cugnu

→ Italian: cugno, Cugno

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

, similar to

Stamu jennu ô cugnu di Prita.

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

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

Cci u 'zziccàssitu nu cugnu sutta â porta? Àvi ca cci sta susciannu ventu di sutta.

Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.

One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.

(architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.

One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.

Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.

(phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.

(mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.

(music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.

(finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a cugnu ca acchiana) or a downward trend in prices (a cugnu ca cala).

(figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.


cugnata

→ Italian: La Cognata

From Latin cuneatus, the perfect passive participle of cuneō (“I wedge in”). See also from Sicilian cugnu and ncugnari.


cugnata

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

(figuratively) related, connected, like, similar


àguru

àguru (feminine singular àgura, masculine and feminine plural àguri)

àgura (feminine singular)
àguri (feminine masculine plural)
jàguru (alternative)
jàvuru (alternative)
jàuru (alternative)
jàjiru (alternative)
àvuru (alternative)
àuru (alternative)
àjiru (alternative)
avuru (alternative)
auru (alternative)
airu (alternative)
jauru (alternative)
jairu (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin *ag(u)rum, ācrus, from Latin ācer, from Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós (“sharp”). Compare ciàguru, nìguru, màguru.


susciari

susciari (infinitive)
susciannu (gerund)
susciatu (participle past)
susciu (first-person indicative present singular)
suscii (indicative present second-person singular)
suscia (indicative present singular third-person)
susciamu (first-person indicative plural present)
susciati (indicative plural present second-person)
sùscianu (indicative plural present third-person)
sùsciunu (indicative plural present third-person)
susciava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
susciavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
susciavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
susciava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
susciàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
susciàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
susciàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
susciàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
susciai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
susciasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
susciau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
susciò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
susciammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
susciamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
susciàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
susciàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
susciaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
susciirò (first-person future indicative singular)
susciirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
susciirai (future indicative second-person singular)
susciirà (future indicative singular third-person)
susciiremu (first-person future indicative plural)
susciireti (future indicative plural second-person)
susciiriti (future indicative plural second-person)
susciirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
susciirìa (first-person indicative singular)
susciirissi (indicative second-person singular)
susciirìa (indicative singular third-person)
susciirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
susciirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
susciirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
susciu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
suscii (present second-person singular subjunctive)
suscia (present singular subjunctive third-person)
susciamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
susciati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
sùscianu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sùsciunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
susciassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
susciassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
susciassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
susciàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
susciàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
susciàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
suscia (imperative second-person singular)
susciassi (imperative singular third-person)
susciamu (first-person imperative plural)
susciati (imperative plural second-person)
ciucari (alternative)
ciusciari (alternative)
sciusciari (alternative)

From Latin sufflāre (“blow, puff up, inflate”).


masciḍḍa

masciḍḍi (plural)
mascidda (alternative)

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

af

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

Coordinate term: mantìbbula

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


Lintini

→ Italian: Lentini

From older Liuntini, from Latin Leontīnī, from Ancient Greek Λεοντῖνοι (Leontînoi, literally “the leonines”).


amareḍḍi

From an unattested Vulgar Latin *amārelli, from amārus (“bitter”) + -ellus (“suffix added to an adjective forming a diminutive of that adjective”). Possibly by contamination of Ancient Greek μαρούλιον (maroúlion, a kind of lettuce), which is derived itself from an earlier *ἀμαρούλιον (*amaroúlion), from Latin amārus (“bitter”).

bor

âmareḍḍi (alternative)
amareddi (alternative)

Mediterranean mustard
Mediterranean mustard

Hirschfeldia incana; Mediterranean mustard


-otu

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-otu (feminine -ota, masculine and feminine plurals -oti)

-ota (feminine)
plurals -oti (feminine masculine)

Ultimately from Ancient Greek -ώτης (-ṓtēs). Doublet of -ottu, possibly.

Gala + -otu → galiotu, Galiotu

Mal(u)passu + -otu → marpassotu

Scurdìa + -otu → scurdiotu

Sicilia + -otu → siciliotu, Siciliotu

Tìnnaru + -otu → tinnarotu

Vicarìa + -otu → vicariotu


cucchia

From Vulgar Latin *cōpla, from Latin cōpula. Compare Italian coppia.


ncunucchiari

ncunucchiari (infinitive)
ncunucchiannu (gerund)
ncunucchiatu (participle past)
ncunucchiu (first-person indicative present singular)
ncunucchii (indicative present second-person singular)
ncunucchia (indicative present singular third-person)
ncunucchiamu (first-person indicative plural present)
ncunucchiati (indicative plural present second-person)
ncunucchiava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ncunucchiavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ncunucchiavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
ncunucchiava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
ncunucchiàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
ncunucchiàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
ncunucchiàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ncunucchiàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ncunucchiai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
ncunucchiasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
ncunucchiau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
ncunucchiò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
ncunucchiammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
ncunucchiamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
ncunucchiàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
ncunucchiàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
ncunucchiaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
ncunucchiirò (first-person future indicative singular)
ncunucchiirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
ncunucchiirai (future indicative second-person singular)
ncunucchiirà (future indicative singular third-person)
ncunucchiiremu (first-person future indicative plural)
ncunucchiireti (future indicative plural second-person)
ncunucchiiriti (future indicative plural second-person)
ncunucchiirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
ncunucchiirìa (first-person indicative singular)
ncunucchiirissi (indicative second-person singular)
ncunucchiirìa (indicative singular third-person)
ncunucchiirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
ncunucchiirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
ncunucchiirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
ncunucchiu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
ncunucchii (present second-person singular subjunctive)
ncunucchia (present singular subjunctive third-person)
ncunucchiamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
ncunucchiati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
ncunucchiassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
ncunucchiassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
ncunucchiassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
ncunucchiàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
ncunucchiàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ncunucchiàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
ncunucchia (imperative second-person singular)
ncunucchiassi (imperative singular third-person)
ncunucchiamu (first-person imperative plural)
ncunucchiati (imperative plural second-person)
ncunicchiari (alternative)

By surface analysis, n- (“distaff”) + cunocchia + -ari. From Vulgar Latin *inconucŭlāre. Possibly from in- + *conucŭlāre (“distaff”), this latter derives from the dissimilation of Latin colucŭla, diminutive of Latin colus. Compare Italian conocchia.

surf

to squeeze something by applying pressure


Girgenti

→ English: Girgenti

→ Italian: Girgenti

From Vulgar Latin *(A)girgenti, apocoped methatesis of Agrigentum, from Ancient Greek Ἀκράγας (Akrágas). Compare for more Cilentu, Salentu, Tàrantu, Ugentu.

Giurgenti (alternative)
Agriggentu (alternative)

Agrigento (a province and city in Sicily, Italy)


stivala

stivali (plural)
stuvala (alternative)
stuala (alternative)

→ Italian: Stivala

Origin disputed. Ultimately either from Medieval Latin aestivālis (“summerly”), in place of Classical Latin aestīvus (whence also Sicilian stivu), from aestās (“summer”), or from tībiālis (“tibial, of the tibia”), from tībia. Compare Old French estival, Italian stivale.

unk

disputed


perdiri

peddiri (alternative)
pirdiri (alternative)


loccu

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loccu (feminine singular locca, masculine and feminine plural locci)

locca (feminine singular)
locci (feminine masculine plural)

Possibly of Arabic origin. See Spanish loco, Portuguese louco for more.


cùnzulu

cùnzuli (plural)
cùnzula (plural)
cùnzuli (alternative)
cònzuli (alternative)
cònsuli (alternative)
consuli (alternative)

→ English: Cunsolo

→ Italian: Cunsolo

(historical) Either of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires.

(historical) Any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804.

(by extension) An official residing in major foreign towns to represent and protect the interests of the merchants and citizens of his or her country.


Cùnzulu

English: Cunsolo

desc

Italian: Consolo, Consoli, Consolino, Cunsulo, Cunsolo, Cunzolo

Cunzulu (alternative)
Di Cùnzulu (alternative)
Cunzulinu (alternative)


cchjù

From Latin plus. Compare Neapolitan cchiù, Italian più.

chiù (alternative)
cchiù (alternative)
cchiui (alternative)
cchiuni (alternative)


cumprènniri

cumprènniri (infinitive)
cumprennennu (gerund)
cumpresu (participle past)
cumprennu (first-person indicative present singular)
cumprenni (indicative present second-person singular)
cumprenni (indicative present singular third-person)
cumprennemu (first-person indicative plural present)
cumprenniti (indicative plural present second-person)
cumprenninu (indicative plural present third-person)
cumprennunu (indicative plural present third-person)
cumprennìa (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
cumprennivi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
cumprennìa (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
cumprennìamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
cumprennìavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
cumprennìanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
cumprennivi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
cumprennìi (first-person indicative preterite singular)
cumprennisti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
cumprennìu (indicative preterite singular third-person)
cumprennemmu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
cumprennìstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
cumprenneru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
cumprennirìa (first-person indicative singular)
cumprennirissi (indicative second-person singular)
cumprennirìa (indicative singular third-person)
cumprennirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
cumprennirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
cumprennirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
cumprennu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
cumprenni (present second-person singular subjunctive)
cumprenni (present singular subjunctive third-person)
cumprennemu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
cumprenniti (plural present second-person subjunctive)
cumprenninu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
cumprennunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
cumprennissi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
cumprennissi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
cumprennissi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
cumprennìssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
cumprennìssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
cumprennìssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
cumprenni (imperative second-person singular)
cumprennissi (imperative singular third-person)
cumprennemu (first-person imperative plural)
cumprenniti (imperative plural second-person)

Derived from Latin comprendō, alternative form of Latin comprehendō. Compare Italian comprendere, also Sardinian cumprèndere.

Sè, ura ti cumprennu.

(transitive) to understand, comprehend, get the point


cumprennu

first-person singular present indicative of cumprènniri


cumprennìi

first-person singular past indicative of cumprènniri


raloggiu

raloggi (plural)
raloggia (plural)
ruloggiu (alternative)
ralogiu (alternative)
riloggiu (alternative)
rologgiu (alternative)

Maltese: arloġġ

From Latin hōrologium, from Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion). Compare Italian orologio.


auzari

auzari (infinitive)
auzannu (gerund)
auzatu (participle past)
auzu (first-person indicative present singular)
auzi (indicative present second-person singular)
auza (indicative present singular third-person)
auzamu (first-person indicative plural present)
auzati (indicative plural present second-person)
àuzanu (indicative plural present third-person)
àuzunu (indicative plural present third-person)
auzava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
auzavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
auzavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
auzava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
auzàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
auzàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
auzàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
auzàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
auzai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
auzasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
auzau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
auzò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
auzammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
auzamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
auzàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
auzàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
auzaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
auzirò (first-person future indicative singular)
auzirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
auzirai (future indicative second-person singular)
auzirà (future indicative singular third-person)
auziremu (first-person future indicative plural)
auzireti (future indicative plural second-person)
auziriti (future indicative plural second-person)
auzirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
auzirìa (first-person indicative singular)
auzirissi (indicative second-person singular)
auzirìa (indicative singular third-person)
auzirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
auzirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
auzirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
auzu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
auzi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
auza (present singular subjunctive third-person)
auzamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
auzati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
àuzanu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
àuzunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
auzassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
auzassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
auzassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
auzàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
auzàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
auzàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
auza (imperative second-person singular)
auzassi (imperative singular third-person)
auzamu (first-person imperative plural)
auzati (imperative plural second-person)
ausari (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin *altiāre, derived from Latin altus (“high”).

Quannu la matina veni, mi auzu.

(When used reflexively) to stand up, get up


zò

Inherited from Late Latin ecce hoc. Compare Italian ciò.


capiḍḍu

capiḍḍi (plural)
capiddu (alternative)
capidu (alternative)

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

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

A menti è 'n filu 'i capiḍḍu


zàzzira

From Old High German *zazera (“tuft of hair”). Compare Italian zazzera.

bor

Vatinni a 'bbirsari ssa zàzzira!


zazza

Vatinni a 'bbirsari ssa zazza!


Cìnisi

Borrowing from Arabic كَنِيسَة (kanīsa, “church”).

A town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy


buscimisi

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buscimisi (feminine singular buscimisa, masculine and feminine plural buscimisi)

buscimisa (feminine singular)
buscimisi (feminine masculine plural)

From Buscema (“Buscemi”) + -isi (demonymic suffix), ultimately from Latin Buxemēnsis.

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I buscimisi su' ditti "cucchi" dî pajisi vicini.

Buscemese people are named "the owls" by the nearby towns.

A person who was born in, or is a citizen or inhabitant of, Buscemi, Sicily, Italy.


buscimisi

I buscimisi abbitanu ncapu ô munti Vignitti, dopu ca lassaru u munti santa Nicola a pressu dû tirrimotu dû 1693.

Buscemese people live on top of mount Vignitti, after they left mount saint Nicolas afterwards 1693 Sicily earthquake.

U buscimisi veni parratu comu ô mudicanu. I buscimisi nfatti dìciunu "facila" mmeci di "vacila" e "favaluci" mmeci di "vavaluci".

Buscemese people speak alike Modicans; they sayfacila instead of vacila and favaluci instead of vavaluci.

(uncountable) The Sicilian dialect, written in Latin alphabet and spoken and spelled using the local pronunciation, which is considerable a subdialect of the Modican one.


buscimisa

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buscimisa (feminine singular buscimisa, masculine and feminine plural buscimisi)


muscu

muschi (plural)
musca (plural)
muschiu (alternative)

From Latin mūscus, from Proto-Indo-European *mews-. Cognates include Proto-Germanic *musą, Proto-Slavic *mъxъ.
Compare Italian muschio, Romanian mușchi, Friulian muscli.


Muscu

English: Musco

Italian: Musco

From muscu (“moss”), from Latin mūscus, from Proto-Indo-European *mews-.


Cala Muschi

→ Italian: Cala Mosche

From cala (“cove”) + muschi (“mosses”), from cala dî muschi.

(hydronym) A cove in Sicily, Italy, specifically placed inside the nature reserve of Vendicari.


cascia di mortu

cascia di mortu f (plural casci di mortu)

casci di mortu (plural)
casc'i mortu (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

Literally, “dead man's chest”. Compare Italian cassa da morto.


fètiri

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fĕtĕre, from Latin fētēre.


casc'i mortu

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

cascia di mortu
cascia di mortu#Sicilian

Pronunciation spelling of cascia di mortu.

Pronunciation spelling of casci di mortu.


carcagnu

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


-ìssimu

-ìssimu (feminine -ìssima, masculine and feminine plurals -ìssimi)

-ìssima (feminine)
plurals -ìssimi (feminine masculine)

From Latin -issimus. Compare Italian -issimo, Spanish -ísimo and Portuguese -íssimo (the last three are partly based on the Italian forms).

santu (“holy”) + -ìssimu → santìssimu (“very holy”)

sacratu (“sacred”) + -ìssimu → sacratìssimu (“very sacred”)

Added to adjectives to form superlatives.


scìmia

scimi (plural)
scìmiu (alternative)
signa (alternative)

From Latin sīmia, from Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “snub-nosed”). Compare Catalan xímia, Italian scimmia, Spanish jimia and Portuguese símia. Doublet of scìmiu.

der

Mi mbriacai comu na signa.

(figurative, idiomatic) drunk (drunken state)


sfincia

sfinci (plural)
sponza (alternative Latinism)
spugna (alternative)
spincia (alternative)

→ English: sfincia

→ Italian: sfincia, sfincione

From Arabic إِسْفَنْج (ʔisfanj), conflated with Latin spongia (“sponge”), ultimately from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos). Doublet of funcia, sponza, and spugna.

Pâ festa 'i san Martinu ni maciammu i sfinci.

We ate sfinci for the feast of St. Martin.

(Sicilian cuisine, mainly plural) A type of batter fried in lard (today also in oil) then garnished on the outside with honey (diluted with water) or other sweeteners. Alternatively they are salty, stuffed internally with ricotta or anchovies. They are usually prepared for certain celebrations on spring or autumn.


prùvula

Double-metathesis of Late Latin pulvera, based on the plural of Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”).

I murtara fìciru na gran fumazzata pi curpa dâ prùvula.

The mortars made a mess of smoke because of the gunpowder.

(in particular) gunpowder (an explosive mixture)


prùvula

prùvuli (plural)
pròvula (alternative)
pruvula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
provula (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

Italian: provola

scamorza (an unfermented cow's-milk cheese from southern Italy)

(by extension, figurative) incompetent person, fool


chiuritu

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *plūrītus m, with dissimilation from Latin prūrītus m (“an itching”).


manciaciumi

Distortion of French démangeaison f (“an itching”). By surface analysis, manciari (“to eat”) + ciumi (“rivers”).


manciaciuni

Distortion of French démangeaison (“an itching”). By surface analysis suffixed with -uni.


patirnostru

Borrowed from Latin Pater noster. Compare Italian padrenostro.


siccarizzu

From Vulgar Latin *siccāricius. Compare Italian secchereccio. By surface analysis, siccu (“dry”) + -arizzu.


siccarizzu

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siccarizzu (feminine singular siccarizza, masculine and feminine plural siccarizzi)

siccarizza (feminine singular)
siccarizzi (feminine masculine plural)


siccu

siccu (feminine singular sicca, masculine and feminine plural sicchi)

sicca (feminine singular)
sicchi (feminine masculine plural)

From Latin siccus. Compare Italian secco.


guastedda

guasteḍḍa (canonical feminine)
guasteḍḍi (plural)

From Old Northern French wastel, equivalent of Old French gastel, whence modern French gâteau.

(cooking) a traditional Sicilian bread cake filled with spleen and ricotta


mànnira

mànniri (plural)
mànnara (alternative)
mannra (alternative)

→ Italian: mannara

From Ancient Greek μάνδρα (mándra, “enclosed space; barn”).

der

fold, pen, barn, or stable for cattle or sometimes horses


muciu

From Vulgar Latin *mūsiu(m), from Latin mūsiō (“cat”). The origin of this latter is unknown but it is likely intended as from the (non rhotic) genitive of mūs (“mouse”) + -ō (agent noun suffix). Compare Italian micio.


muciḍḍa

Diminutive feminine of muciu, from the palatalization of Vulgar Latin *mūsiu(m), from Latin mūsiō (“cat”). Compare Italian micio.

Nts, nts, veni cca muciḍḍa!

(colloquial, endearing, now rare) A woman or girl, seen as having characteristics associated with cats such as sweetness.


muniḍḍa

Nts, nts, veni cca muniḍḍa!

(Buscemese variant) Alternative form of muciḍḍa


papareḍḍa

→ Italian: paparedda

pa‧pa‧rè‧ḍḍa

Uncertain. It is believed to be of onomatopoeic origin.
Diminutive feminine of pàparu. Compare Italian papero and paparuni.

(informal, endearing) A female young goose.

(informal, endearing) An inexperienced and immature, or foolish and naive, young girl.

Veni cca papareḍḍa!

(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A young, typically attractive, woman or teenage girl.


Dumìnicu

Semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin Dominicus, derived from Latin dominicus, from dominus (“lord”, “master”) + -icus (“of”, “pertaining to”, “belonging to”, “connected with”).

suffix

Rumìnicu (alternative)
Duminicu (alternative)
Ruminicu (alternative)

a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Dominic

a Sicilian surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Di Dumìnicu


ciuḍḍu

→? Italian: Ciullo

Uncertain. Possibly rom the palatalization of Latin suīllus, from Latin sūs (“swine, pork”).

(specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a porcu, an adult swine).

Cavia porcellus
Cavia porcellus#Translingual

A tailless rodent of the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia, with short ears and larger than a hamster; the species Cavia porcellus is often kept as a pet; a guinea pig.


ammuttari

From a- + n- + *buttari, the last element being from Old French bouter (“to strike, put”), of Germanic origin.

(intransitive, of a person or situation) to be unpleasant, harsh

(intransitive) to work excessively, speed up


ammuttari

From a- + n- + vutti (“barrel”) + -ari. Compare Italian imbottare.


dimuranza

From dimurari + -anza. Compare Italian dimoranza.

Pir meu cori alligrari ¶ chi multu longiamenti ¶ senza alligranza e joi d'amuri è statu, ¶ mi ritornu in cantari, ¶ ca forsi levimenti ¶ da dimuranza turnirìa in usatu ¶ di lu troppu taciri; […]

13ᵗʰ century, Stefano Protonotaro da Messina, “Pir meu cori alligrari”

To cheer up my heart which has been without happiness and joy of love for a long time, I go back to singing, because maybe I could easily turn the delay of too much silence into a habit; […]


dimura

Deverbal from dimurari, from Latin dēmoror, dēmorārī. Compare Italian dimora and literary Italian dimura.


manciarizzu

From manciari (“to eat”) + -arizzu. Compare Italian mangereccio.


Buxema

→ Medieval Latin: Buxema

desctree

→ Sicilian: Buscema
→ English: Buscema, Buscemi
→ Italian: Buscema, Buscemi

Borrowed from Arabic أَبُو شَامَة (ʔabū šāma, literally “the one with the mole”), clipping of the extended form قَلْعَة أَبِي شَامَة (qalʕat ʔabī šāma, literally “castle of the one with the mole”). Doublet of Buscema. Compare, for a similar output from Siculo-Arabic, compare Nissa and Xibbetta.

bor+

أَبُو شَامَة

Qalat abu Sama (alternative)
Abixema (alternative)
Abuxama (alternative)
Abissama (alternative)
Abussama (alternative)
Buscema (alternative)
Calatabuxema (alternative)
Abuxema (alternative)

Buscemi (a small community on the Hyblaean Mountains, in Sicily, Italy)


buttana

(regional) → Italian: buttana

Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *puttana, from Latin puta (“girl”), implying a formation from puta (“girl”) + -āna (relationship of position, possession, or origin suffix).
The change from /p-/ to /b-/ is relatively unregular for Sicilian phonology (compare i.e. pusu~buzzu, “wrist”). For a similar change, compare Catalan barcella.
The gemination is explained by the long vowel quantity of the desinence.
The word Latin putta (“prostitute”) is attested in the sixth century (Gregory of Tours). The change of meaning from "girl" to "prostitute" is due to euphemism, a process that is well known to other periods and languages. Cognates are: Catalan putana, French putain, Italian puttana, Emilian putàna.

affix

(derogatory) Synonym of prustituta: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.

prustituta

(vulgar, derogatory) A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut.

(vulgar, derogatory) A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.

(vulgar, derogatory) A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.

(vulgar, derogatory) A contemptible person.


vuscenza

→ Italian: voscenza

Borrowed, and nativized, from Spanish vuecencia, from vue(stra) + (ex)c(el)encia, literally “your excellency”.

blend

Vuscenza vulissi n'anticchia di acqua?

(formal, honorific, courtly, now dated) indefinite pronoun; Your Lordship, Your Ladyship, Your Excellency


vussìa

Possibly from the same source of Portuguese você; which is from the syncope of vosmecê, elision of vossemecê, contraction of Old Galician-Portuguese vossa mercee (literally “your mercy”) (today's mercê) from Latin vostra + mercēs. Compare with Spanish usted (from vuestra merced (literally “your mercy”)), Catalan vostè, and Italian vossignoria.

der

Vussìa vulissi n'anticchia di acqua?


dammusu

dammusi (plural)
dammusa (plural)
tammusu (alternative)

→ Italian: dammuso

From Arabic دَمُّوس (dammūs), variant of دَيْمَاس (daymās). Ultimately from Ancient Greek δημόσιον (dēmósion, “public building; treasury; public prison; public bath”), the neuter of δημόσιος (dēmósios, “public”) Compare furthermore Doric Greek δᾱμόσῐος (dāmósĭos).

underground vault, obtained from the excavation of limestone and finished in masonry, intended for housing, whose internal temperature remains constant between summers and winters

a limestone habitation typical of the Hyblaean Mountains. Cfr. dieri

a small, stone habitation typical of Pantelleria


lijistru

Sicilian: Lijistru

Italian: Liistro, Gilistro

English: Liistro

(botanics) privet; any of various shrubs and small trees in the genus Ligustrum..


crascì

From an earlier craxi (whence Craxi), from Byzantine Greek κρασίον (krasíon, “blending”, diminutive), from Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “blending”). Compare with οίνος m (oínos). Cognate with Greek κρασί (krasí) and Mariupol Greek красы́ (krasý).


craxi

craxì (canonical masculine)
crascì (alternative)

Sicilian: crascì

Sicilian: Craxi, Craxì

→ Italian: Craxi

→ English: Craxi

From Byzantine Greek κρασίον (krasíon, “blending”, diminutive), from Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “blending”). Cognate with Greek κρασί (krasí) and Mariupol Greek красы́ (krasý).


Crascì

Italian: Craxi

English: Craxi

This surname's likely meaning was “winemaker”, deriving from an earlier spelling Craxì, from craxì (now crascì), from Byzantine Greek κρασίον (krasíon, “blending”, diminutive), from Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixture, blending”).

bor

Craxi (alternative)
Craxì (alternative)
Crasci (alternative)
Grassìa (alternative)
Grasciu (alternative)
Grassu (alternative)
Incrascì (alternative)
Ingrassìa (alternative)


strùmmulu

Alternative form of strùmmula (“spinning top”)


strùmmula

strùmmuli (plural)
strùmmulu (alternative)

From Ancient Greek στρόμβος (strómbos, “spinning top”) + -ula (diminutive suffix). Unrelated to Italian strombola (“a sling”).

af

grc:στρόμβος


lazzu

From Vulgar Latin *laceus, from Latin laqueus. Compare Italian laccio.

lazzu e strùmmula


picciriḍḍu

picciriḍḍi (plural)
picciriddu (alternative)
picciridu (alternative)

adurtu

antonym(s) of “person below the age of adulthood”

desc

→? Italian: piccirillo, Piccirillo (surname)

Uncertain. Probably from an unattested Norman or Occitan superstrate/adstrate, because of the palatalization of the -cc- nexus. Eventually derived from Latin *piccus, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small, little”); possibly influenced (and/or conflated) by dissimilation by Latin paucus (“few, little”). Cognate with Neapolitan piccerillo and Greek πιτσιρίκος (pitsiríkos). Compare Provençal picho and pechin. See also Sicilian picca and picciottu.

boy, child (male or of unspecified gender)

Vacci a leggiu cu iḍḍu: ancora è-ni 'n picciriḍḍu.

(broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).

I sirbizza pônu siri apprupiati sia pî picciriḍḍi ca macari pî carusi.

Regular chores can be appropriate for both children and adolescents.

scn:kid aged 0 to 18 years
scn:kid aged 1 to 11 years

(pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A kid aged 1 to 11 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 month to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 12 years to 18 years.

U me picciriḍḍu cchiù nicu avannu fa quarantatrì anni.

My youngest child is forty-three this year.

scn:offspring of any age including adulthood

(with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.


tuppettu

tuppetti (plural)
tuppetta (alternative)


buleu

Uncertain. Likely akin to Italian paleo (“a kind of spinning top”). The voiced b- and pre-tonic -u- could be due to influence of Spanish bolear (“to make into balls”).


scurzària

scurzari (plural)
scurzaria (alternative)
scuzzaria (alternative)

From an unattested Vulgar Latin *scortearia, from the compound of scortea (“shell”) + -āria (appurtenance suffix). Cfr. Sicilian scorcia. Compare semantically German Schildkröte.

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Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae, whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.

U scurzarieḍḍu.

(by extension, nickname) Any person who resembles it for body constitution


Còmisu

(Variant without the definite article) Alternative form of U Còmisu


Saragusa

→ Italian: Siragusa

From Latin Syrācūsae, from Ancient Greek Συρᾱ́κουσαι (Surā́kousai). Possibly conflated phonetically with Old Spanish Saragoça. Compare Italian Siracusa.

Sarausa (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
Siragusa (alternative)
Sirausa (alternative)

Syracuse (a port, the capital city of the province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy)


U Còmisu

→ Italian: Comiso

U Còmmisu (alternative)
Còmisu (alternative)
Còmmisu (alternative)

Comiso (a city in the province of Ragusa, Sicily, Italy)


Janiattini

→? Italian: Canicattini Bagni

Possibly from an earlier *Ganigattini. Borrowed from Arabic خَنْدَق الطِّينِ (ḵandaq aṭ-ṭīni, literally “moat of the mud”). Doublet of Sicilian Caniattì.

bor+

خَنْدَق الطِّينِ

Janigattini (alternative)
Caniattini (alternative)

Canicattini Bagni
Canicattini Bagni#English


Mòdica

→ Italian: Modica

From Latin Motyca, borrowed from Ancient Greek Μοτύκα (Motúka), most likely from a pre-Hellenic and Siculian substrate.

Modica (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
Muòrica (alternative)


Notu

→ Italian: Noto

→ English: Noto

Ultimately from Latin Nētum, from Ancient Greek Νέητον (Néēton).

Nuotu (alternative)
Di Notu (alternative)


cugnatu

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

(figuratively) related, connected, like, similar


rùncula

From runca (“billhook”) + -ula (diminutive suffix). Compare Italian roncola.


zuccu

→ Maltese: zokk

From Vulgar Latin *tsucca, from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Cognate with Catalan soca, Spanish soca and French souche.

der

O zuccu o ventu.

In full: zuccu di l'oricchia

Da l’autru latu lu gran Sanciu Panza ¶ Mi parra ’ntra lu zuccu di l’oricchia; […]

c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter I, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 2:

On the other hand the great Sancho Panza, speaks to me right in the ear; […]

aviri zucchi

(in the plural) estate (a person's lands)


cippu

Inherited from Latin cippus. Cognate with Italian ceppo.

cippu di la ncùnija

block (wooden base for cutting meat or beheading)

log (piece of a tree trunk, for burning)

Coordinate term: tressu

(typography) the superior of the two wooden beams at the sides of a printing press


Circi

(Greek mythology) An enchantress who turned Odysseus' men into pigs.

A woman having the characteristics of Circe; an enchantress.

(astronomy) 34 Circe, a main belt asteroid.


astrattu

A concentrated tomato paste made by drying tomato purée in the sun


scaudari

Inherited from Latin excaldō, excaldāre. Cognate with Italian scaldare. By surface analysis, s- + caudu (“hot”) + -ari.

surf

scuadari (alternative)
squadari (alternative)
scuarari (alternative)
scaurijari (alternative)

(transitive) to warm up (to increase the heat of something)

(transitive) to burn, scald (to injure with heat or fire)


rigulizzia

Italian: Rigolizia (toponym)

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

(botany) licorice (Glycyrrhiza echinata or glabra)

Prùvula di rigulizzia.

the substance extracted from the root of said plant


vintureri

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vintureri m (plural vintureri, feminine vinturera, feminine plural vintureri)

vintureri (plural)
vinturera (feminine)
vintureri (feminine plural)

From abbinturàrisi (“to venture”) + -eri. Compare Italian venturiero.


caciu

Palatalized variant of the earlier casu, through vulgar *kas(j)u, ultimately from Latin cāseus of unknown origin. Cognate with Italian cacio Neapolitan caso, Sardinian casu, Aragonese and Spanish queso, Portuguese queijo, Aromanian cash, Romanian caș. Doublet of casu.


caciu nta li maccarruna

Literally, “cheese on macaroni”. Same as Italian cacio sui maccheroni.

càdiri lu caciu nta li maccarruna

È comu lu caciu nta li maccarruna.


Vuccirìa

From vuccirìa. Cognate to Catalan Boqueria.

A large historical market in Palermo, Sicily.


Ìnnia

From Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía).


jaggia

From the conflation of Catalan gàbia (for the initial sonorization) and Old French cage, ultimately from Latin cavea.

l'auceḍḍu nti la gaggia, nun canta pi amuri ma canta pi raggia

u uceḍḍu nnâ jaggia, nun canta p' amuri ma canta pi raggia


Caristia

Italian: Caristia

English: Caristia

From Latin charistia (“Latin family holidays”), otherwise from the apheresis of Latin eucharistia (“gratitude, gracefulness”). Ultimately from Ancient Greek χαρίστεια (kharísteia) or from Ancient Greek χαριστήριος (kharistḗrios, “thanksgiving offering”), from χᾰρίζω (khărízō, “to gratify, give graciously”).


Luici

Superseded (by conflation with Italian Luigi) the older native form Lisi (then also Lici), from the haplological Medieval Latin L(udov)īsi(us)/Lu(do)vīsi(us)
(possibly influenced by Occitan (A)loysi(us) or Old French Luis), from Latin Ludovīcus, from Old High German *Hlūtwīg or Frankish *Hlōdowig, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz (“loud, famous”) + *wīgą (“battle”).
Compare English Louis, Catalan Lluís, Spanish Luis, German Ludwig, Italian Luigi, Portuguese Luís. Compare the same phono-morphological output also for articianu (“artisan”), parmicianu (“parmisan”), particianu (“partisan”), also Dinisi (“Dionysius, Dennis”) and Tamisi (“Thames”).

Lisi (alternative)
Lici (alternative)
Luvisi (alternative)
Luvici (alternative)
Cluduvìu (alternative)
Luduvicu (alternative)
Luiggi (alternative)
Luiggiu (alternative)
Ligghi (alternative)

a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Louis or Lewis


tumazzu

From tuma (“fresh unsalted cheese”) + -azzu.

L’Eroi s’addubba cu pani, e tumazzu; […]

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

The hero had his fill of bread and cheese; […]

(Sicily, countable and uncountable) cheese


sagramentali

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

sagramentali (feminine singular)
sagramentali (feminine masculine plural)
sagramintali (alternative)
sacramintali (alternative)

→ Maltese: sagramentali

From Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentālis. Compare Italian sacramentale. By surface analysis, sagramentu (“sacrament”) + -ali.

surf

relational adjective of sagramentu (“sacrament”): sacramental


sagru

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sagru (feminine singular sagra, masculine and feminine plural sagri)

sagra (feminine singular)
sagri (feminine masculine plural)
sacru (alternative)

→ Maltese: sagru

Inherited from Latin sacer, sacrum. Compare Italian sacro.


sittembru

In lu misi di iugnettu et lu duca Rubertu et lu Re di Ingliterra, lu duca Guillelmu, in lu misi di sittembru, si foru morti.

1358, Simone da Lentini, chapter 23, in La conquesta di Sichilia fatta per li Normandi, page 108:

Di novu à lu sò clima si sequestra; ¶ Chi poi la terra diventa matrigna ¶ Cucina Agustu, e Sittembru minestra.

1654, Paolo Catania, Canzoni morali sopra i motti siciliani […] , page 344:


nuvembru

Lu misi di nuvembru a mezza notti ¶ A vintisetti intrava la lavina, […]

1871, Giuseppe Pitrè, Canti popolari siciliani, page 160:


morvu

Inherited from Latin morbus (“illness”).


bruddu

bruḍḍu (canonical masculine)
brugghiu (alternative)

Pasqualino suggests Ancient Greek βρύλλω (brúllō, “to ask for a drink”).

der

mèttiri 'n bruḍḍu na jinìa

mittìrisi 'n bruḍḍu


tòrtula

Compare Italian trottola, with metathesis.


muccu

Inherited from Vulgar Latin muccus, from Latin mūcus. Compare Neapolitan mucco and Italian moccolo.


moccu

Ultimately from Latin mūcus. See also muccu and mòccaru.


spacchimi

→ Italian: spacchimi

→? Neapolitan: sfaccimma

From spacchiu + -imi (forming noun suffix), from Vulgar Latin *expatlum, from Vulgar Latin *expatlum literally meaning "what comes out of the [vaginal] opening", from Vulgar Latin ex + *patlum, from Latin patulus (“open, spread out”).

Ma chi spacchimi ni sacciu?!

(vulgar, colloquial) Used as a placeholder.

Chi spacchiu voi?

(vulgar, colloquial) An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically modifies.

Leva ssa spacchimi di màchina di 'n menzu â strata!

(vulgar) (+ di) Offensive, annoying or worthless.


arcunu

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arcunu (feminine singular arcuna, masculine and feminine plural arcuni)

arcuna (feminine singular)
arcuni (feminine masculine plural)
accunu (alternative)
alcunu (alternative)
alicunu (alternative)
ancunu (alternative)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *alicūnus, from aliquī + ūnus.


monastèriu

monastèri (plural)
monasteru (alternative)


spirlavatu

spirlavatu (feminine singular spirlavata, masculine and feminine plural spirlavati)

spirlavata (feminine singular)
spirlavati (feminine masculine plural)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *experlavātus. By surface analysis, s- + pir- + lavatu.


oggezzioni

→ Maltese: oġġezzjoni

Ultimately from Latin obiectiō. Compare Italian obiezione and literary oggezione.


nottàmmulu

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nottàmmulu m (plural nottàmmuli, feminine nottàmmula)

nottàmmuli (plural)
nottàmmula (feminine)

Inherited from Latin noctu ambulans, reanalyzed as containing -ulus. Compare Italian nottambulo.


Ilìa

Sicilian: Lìa

Italian: Lia

Borrowed from Latin Ēliās, from Ancient Greek Ἠλίας (Ēlías), from Hebrew אֵלִיָּה (ēliyā́, “Jah is my God”).

der

Lìa (alternative)
Elìa (alternative)
Lea (alternative)

(religion) An Israelite prophet in the Abrahamic religions.


Lìa

→ Italian: Lia

→ Italian: Elia, Lea (italianized variant)

Sicilian: Liuzzu, Luzzu

Italian: Liuzzo

Apocoped variant of Ilìa, from Latin Ēliās, from Ancient Greek Ἠλίας (Ēlías), from Hebrew אֵלִיָּה (ēliyā́, “Jah is my God”).

(religion) Elijah, an Israelite prophet in the Abrahamic religions.

a male given name from Hebrew; Elijah, Elias.


umiltati

Borrowed from Latin humilitās, humilitātem. By surface analysis, ùmili + -itati. Compare Italian umiltà. Doublet of omertà.

bor+

umilitati (alternative)
umiltà (alternative)
umirtà (alternative)


umirtà

umirtà (plural)
umirtati (plural)
umilità (alternative)
umilitati (alternative)

Italian: omertà

English: omerta

From the apocope of the doublet umirtati, from Latin humil(i)tā(tem). Cognate with Italian umiltà, Catalan humilitat, French humilité, Galician humildade, Spanish humildad. By surface analysis, ùmili + -ità.


ùmili

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

ùmili (feminine singular)
ùmili (feminine masculine plural)

Borrowed from Latin humilis. Compare Italian umile.


ricaricari

Borrowed from Italian ricaricare. See also carricari.


puntutu

puntutu (feminine singular puntuta, masculine and feminine plural puntuti)

puntuta (feminine singular)
puntuti (feminine masculine plural)

By surface analysis, punta + -utu. Compare Italian puntuto, French pointu, Portuguese pontudo.


pittinicchiu

pettinicchiu (canonical masculine)
pettinicchi (plural)

By surface analysis, pèttini + -icchiu. Corresponds to Vulgar Latin *pectinī̆culum.


pèttini

Inherited from Latin pecten, pectinem. Compare Italian pettine.

pèttini di lìnnini

Ogni nodu veni ô pèttini.


lìnnina

From Late Latin lendina, ultimately from Latin lendis f. Compare Italian lendine m.


cucineri

cucineri m needs inflection (canonical)
cucineri (plural)


jinìparu

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

Juniperus communis
Juniperus communis#Translingual


nzajari

nzajari (infinitive)
nzajannu (gerund)
nzajatu (participle past)
nzaju (first-person indicative present singular)
nzaji (indicative present second-person singular)
nzaja (indicative present singular third-person)
nzajamu (first-person indicative plural present)
nzajati (indicative plural present second-person)
nzàjanu (indicative plural present third-person)
nzàjunu (indicative plural present third-person)
nzajava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
nzajavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
nzajavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
nzajava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
nzajàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
nzajàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
nzajàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
nzajàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
nzajai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
nzajasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
nzajau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
nzajò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
nzajammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
nzajamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
nzajàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
nzajàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
nzajaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
nzajirò (first-person future indicative singular)
nzajirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
nzajirai (future indicative second-person singular)
nzajirà (future indicative singular third-person)
nzajiremu (first-person future indicative plural)
nzajireti (future indicative plural second-person)
nzajiriti (future indicative plural second-person)
nzajirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
nzajirìa (first-person indicative singular)
nzajirissi (indicative second-person singular)
nzajirìa (indicative singular third-person)
nzajirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
nzajirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
nzajirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
nzaju (first-person present singular subjunctive)
nzaji (present second-person singular subjunctive)
nzaja (present singular subjunctive third-person)
nzajamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
nzajati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
nzàjanu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
nzàjunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
nzajassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
nzajassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
nzajassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
nzajàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
nzajàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
nzajàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
nzaja (imperative second-person singular)
nzajassi (imperative singular third-person)
nzajamu (first-person imperative plural)
nzajati (imperative plural second-person)


cunocchia

cunocchi (plural)
cunoccia (alternative)

From the metathesis of the vowels of Late Latin conucula, by dissimilation from colucula, diminutive of Latin colus (“distaff”). Compare Italian conocchia.

cunocchia di la rota


miolu

mïolu (canonical masculine)
mïoli (plural)
mijolu (alternative)

Inherited from Latin modiolus (“wheel hub”). Compare French moyeu.


sminnari

sminnari (infinitive)
sminnannu (gerund)
sminnatu (participle past)
sminnu (first-person indicative present singular)
sminni (indicative present second-person singular)
sminna (indicative present singular third-person)
sminnamu (first-person indicative plural present)
sminnati (indicative plural present second-person)
sminnanu (indicative plural present third-person)
sminnunu (indicative plural present third-person)
sminnava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sminnavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sminnavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sminnava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sminnàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sminnàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sminnàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sminnàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sminnai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
sminnasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
sminnau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
sminnò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
sminnammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
sminnamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
sminnàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
sminnàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
sminnaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
sminnirò (first-person future indicative singular)
sminnirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
sminnirai (future indicative second-person singular)
sminnirà (future indicative singular third-person)
sminniremu (first-person future indicative plural)
sminnireti (future indicative plural second-person)
sminniriti (future indicative plural second-person)
sminnirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
sminnirìa (first-person indicative singular)
sminnirissi (indicative second-person singular)
sminnirìa (indicative singular third-person)
sminnirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
sminnirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
sminnirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
sminnu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sminni (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sminna (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sminnamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
sminnati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
sminnanu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sminnunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sminnassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sminnassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sminnassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sminnàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sminnàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sminnàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sminna (imperative second-person singular)
sminnassi (imperative singular third-person)
sminnamu (first-person imperative plural)
sminnati (imperative plural second-person)


drittu

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drittu (feminine singular dritta, masculine and feminine plural dritti)

dritta (feminine singular)
dritti (feminine masculine plural)
rittu (alternative pronunciation-spelling)
grittu (alternative)

→ Maltese: dritt

From Latin *drēctus, syncopated form of *derēctus, alteration of dīrēctus. Compare Catalan dret, Italian dritto.

Pi jiri ḍḍà banna hâ pigghiari ssu drittufilu.

To go that way you have to take that straightline.

obverse (side of a coin, medal or badge)


sagrosantu

sagrosantu (feminine singular sagrosanta, masculine and feminine plural sagrosanti)

sagrosanta (feminine singular)
sagrosanti (feminine masculine plural)
sagrusantu (alternative)
sacrusantu (alternative)

→ Maltese: sagrosant

From Latin sacrōsanctus. Compare Italian sacrosanto. By surface analysis, sagru + santu.


sagrusantu

sagrusantu (feminine singular sagrusanta, masculine and feminine plural sagrusanti)

sagrusanta (feminine singular)
sagrusanti (feminine masculine plural)

Alternative form of sagrosantu (“sacrosanct”)


sagramentu

sagramentu m needs inflection (canonical)
sacramentu (alternative)

→ Maltese: sagrament

From Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum. Compare Italian sacramento. By surface analysis, sagrari (“consacrate”) + -mentu.

surf

Pani e sagramentu cci nn'è a ogni cunventu.

There's bread and sacrament in each convent.


sagramintali

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

sagramintali (feminine singular)
sagramintali (feminine masculine plural)

Alternative form of sagramentali (“sacramental”)


sagramentalmenti

→ Maltese: sagramentalment

Compare Italian sacramentalmente. By surface analysis, sagramentali (“sacramental”) + -menti.

surf

sagramintalmenti (alternative)
sacramintalmenti (alternative)


sagramintalmenti

Alternative form of sagramentalmenti (“sacramentally”)


ciaca

→? Maltese: ċagħaq

Uncertain. Could be from Arabic [script needed] (kiaka) or [script needed] (taciakì).


pridicari

pridicatu (participle past)
pridicari (infinitive)
pridicannu (gerund)
pridicatu (participle past)
prèdicu (first-person indicative present singular)
prèdichi (indicative present second-person singular)
prèdica (indicative present singular third-person)
pridicamu (first-person indicative plural present)
pridicati (indicative plural present second-person)
prèdicanu (indicative plural present third-person)
pridicavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
pridicavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
pridicava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
pridicàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
pridicàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
pridicàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
pridicai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
pridicasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
pridicau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
pridicò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
pridicammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
pridicàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
pridicaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
prèdicu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
prèdichi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
prèdica (present singular subjunctive third-person)
pridicamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
pridicati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
prèdicanu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
pridicassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
pridicassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
pridicassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
pridicàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
pridicàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
pridicàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
prèdica (imperative second-person singular)
pridicassi (imperative singular third-person)
pridicamu (first-person imperative plural)
pridicati (imperative plural second-person)
predicari (alternative)

→ Maltese: pprietka

From Latin praedicō, praedicāre. Compare Italian predicare.

pridicari ad un ortu di càvuli

pridicari a li vanchi


valanza

From a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin bilanx. Compare Italian bilancia.

La valanza nun canusci diffirenzi tra l'oru e lu chiummu.

The scales don't differentiate gold from lead.


prèdica

→ Maltese: prietka, priedka

From pridicari (“to preach”) + -a (form deverbals). Compare Italian predica.

af

stari comu lu turcu a la prèdica

Prèdichi e lattuchi doppu Pasqua sù finuti.


acchiummari

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acchiummari (past participle acchiummatu)

acchiummatu (participle past)
acchiummari (infinitive)
acchiummannu (gerund)
acchiummatu (participle past)
acchiummu (first-person indicative present singular)
acchiummi (indicative present second-person singular)
acchiumma (indicative present singular third-person)
acchiummamu (first-person indicative plural present)
acchiummati (indicative plural present second-person)
acchiùmmanu (indicative plural present third-person)
acchiùmmunu (indicative plural present third-person)
acchiummava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
acchiummavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
acchiummavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
acchiummava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
acchiummàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
acchiummàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
acchiummàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
acchiummàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
acchiummai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
acchiummasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
acchiummau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
acchiummò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
acchiummammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
acchiummamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
acchiummàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
acchiummàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
acchiummaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
acchiummirò (first-person future indicative singular)
acchiummirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
acchiummirai (future indicative second-person singular)
acchiummirà (future indicative singular third-person)
acchiummiremu (first-person future indicative plural)
acchiummireti (future indicative plural second-person)
acchiummiriti (future indicative plural second-person)
acchiummirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
acchiummirìa (first-person indicative singular)
acchiummirissi (indicative second-person singular)
acchiummirìa (indicative singular third-person)
acchiummirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
acchiummirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
acchiummirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
acchiummu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
acchiummi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
acchiumma (present singular subjunctive third-person)
acchiummamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
acchiummati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
acchiùmmanu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
acchiùmmunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
acchiummassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
acchiummassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
acchiummassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
acchiummàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
acchiummàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
acchiummàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
acchiumma (imperative second-person singular)
acchiummassi (imperative singular third-person)
acchiummamu (first-person imperative plural)
acchiummati (imperative plural second-person)


ciminìa

→ Maltese: ċumnija, ċimnija

Ultimately from Old French cheminee, either directly or through Old Spanish chimenea.

cappeddu di ciminìa

àncilu di ciminìa

chimney (construction raised above the roof to expel the smoke of a fireplace)


busunettu

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

ladle (deep-bowled spoon with long handle)


jamiḍḍu

jamiḍḍi (plural)
gamiḍḍu (alternative)
camiḍḍu (alternative)
cammellu (alternative)

Italian: Gamiddo

Possibly a reborrowing from a Semitic adstratum — which retained the voiced velar plosive /ɡ/ as in *gamal- and would eventually explain even the simultaneous presence of /i/ and /ɖɖ/ — ultimately from Vulgar Latin *camellus, from Latin camēlus (“camel”). Cognate with Italian cammello and Maltese ġemel. Doublet of gamiḍḍu.

A beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.


a cippuni

From a + the singular of cippuna m pl, an augmentative of cippi m pl (“shackles”), whence also Maltese ċeppuna (“pen, fold”).

Megghiu pedi a vuluni chi pedi a cippuni.

It's better to be on the run than in captivity.

better quick feet than feet in shackles.


cumandanti

cumandanti (plural)
cumannanti (alternative)

→ Maltese: kmandant

Borrowed from Italian comandante. Doublet of cumannanti.


cumannari

cumannatu (participle past)
cumannari (infinitive)
cumannannu (gerund)
cumannatu (participle past)
cumannu (first-person indicative present singular)
cumanni (indicative present second-person singular)
cumanna (indicative present singular third-person)
cumannamu (first-person indicative plural present)
cumannati (indicative plural present second-person)
cumànnanu (indicative plural present third-person)
cumànnunu (indicative plural present third-person)
cumannava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
cumannavu (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
cumannavi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
cumannava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
cumannàvamu (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
cumannàvavu (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
cumannàvanu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
cumannàvunu (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
cumannai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
cumannasti (indicative preterite second-person singular)
cumannau (indicative preterite singular third-person)
cumannò (indicative preterite singular third-person)
cumannammu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
cumannamu (first-person indicative plural preterite)
cumannàstivu (indicative plural preterite second-person)
cumannàrunu (indicative plural preterite third-person)
cumannaru (indicative plural preterite third-person)
cumannirò (first-person future indicative singular)
cumannirogghiu (first-person future indicative singular)
cumannirai (future indicative second-person singular)
cumannirà (future indicative singular third-person)
cumanniremu (first-person future indicative plural)
cumannireti (future indicative plural second-person)
cumanniriti (future indicative plural second-person)
cumannirannu (future indicative plural third-person)
cumannirìa (first-person indicative singular)
cumannirissi (indicative second-person singular)
cumannirìa (indicative singular third-person)
cumannirìamu (first-person indicative plural)
cumannirìavu (indicative plural second-person)
cumannirìanu (indicative plural third-person)
cumannu (first-person present singular subjunctive)
cumanni (present second-person singular subjunctive)
cumanna (present singular subjunctive third-person)
cumannamu (first-person plural present subjunctive)
cumannati (plural present second-person subjunctive)
cumànnanu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
cumànnunu (plural present subjunctive third-person)
cumannassi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
cumannassi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
cumannassi (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
cumannàssimu (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
cumannàssivu (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
cumannàssiru (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
cumanna (imperative second-person singular)
cumannassi (imperative singular third-person)
cumannamu (first-person imperative plural)
cumannati (imperative plural second-person)
cumandari (alternative)

→ Maltese: kkmanda

From Latin commandāre, variant of commendāre. Compare Italian comandare.

cumannari a bacchetta

to command in a despotic manner, to boss around

cumannari li festi

cumannari un vascellu

cumannari un riggimentu

Cu sapi fari, sapi cumannari.