casucavaḍḍu
Sicilian
Alternative forms
- cascavaddu
- casucavaddu
Etymology 1
From casu (“cheese”) + cavaḍḍu (“horse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.su.kaˈvaɖ.ɖu/, [ka.sʊ.kaˈvaɖ.ɖʊ]
- Rhymes: -aɖɖu
- Hyphenation: ca‧su‧ca‧và‧ḍḍu
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Noun
casucavaḍḍu m (plural casucavaḍḍi)
- (countable and uncountable) caciocavallo (a type of cheese)
Descendants
- → Italian: cascavaddu
- → Ottoman Turkish: قاشقوال (kaşkaval) (see there for further descendants)
See also
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Akin to Italian cacciaccavallo.
Noun
cascavaḍḍu (plural cascavaḍḍi)
- (nautical, archaic) cacciaccavallo (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “casucavaḍḍu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 748
- “cacciaccavallo”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 2 balc–cerr, UTET, 1962, page 478b