beccaio

Italian

Alternative forms

• beccaro (obsolete or regional)

Etymology

From becco (“male goat, billy”) +‎ -aio (“-er”). Cognate with English butcher, French boucher, Lombard becchee, Piedmontese bëcché, Venetan becaro, and Sicilian vucceri, among others.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bekˈka.jo/
• Rhymes: -ajo
• Hyphenation: bec‧cà‧io

Noun

beccaio m (plural beccai, feminine beccaia)

1. (obsolete) one who sells goat meat
2. (by extension, obsolete or regional) butcher

   Synonym: macellaio

Derived terms

• beccheria

Further reading

• beccaio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana