farfecchia
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin forficula (“small scissors”), from forfic- (“scissors”) + -ula,[1] with an unexpected shift of the first vowel. Compare borrowed doublet forficula and seemingly inherited doublet forfecchia (“earwig”).
Alternatively, possibly from the Osco-Umbrian substrate, from Proto-Italic *farβā (“beard”) with the Latin diminutive suffix -cula,[2] in which case, sharing the same root as Italian barba. Though speculative, this would explain the divergent meaning and /a/ vowel.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]farfecchia f (plural farfecchie)
References
[edit]- ^ “farfécchia”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 5 e–fin, UTET, 1968, page 685c
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “barba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 69
Further reading
[edit]- farfecchie in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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