Calaxibbetta

• Calascibbetta, Scibbetta (Italianate spelling)
• Xibbetta (clipping)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌka.la.ʃʃɪbˈbɛt.ta/
• Hyphenation: Ca‧la‧scib‧bèt‧ta

Calaxibbetta m

1. Calascibetta (a town, in Sicily, Italy)

• The grapheme ⟨x⟩ is here employed for /ʃ/ as many instances of /ʃ/ in Old Sicilian do derive from a Latin x, as for example coscia, otherwise this symbol has however been used to adopt borrowings from foreign languages. The grapheme was also widely used in Ibero-Romance languages with the same scope.

• Sicilian: Calascibbetta
• Italian: Calascibetta