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Xibbetta

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Sicilian

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Etymology

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Clipping of Calaxibbetta. Doublet of Scibbetta.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʃʃɪbˈbɛt.ta/
  • Hyphenation: Xib‧bèt‧ta

Proper noun

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Xibbetta m

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

Usage notes

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  • 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.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Sicilian: Scibbetta
    • → Italian: Scibetta
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