cacciaturi
Sicilian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cacciari (“to hunt”) + -turi, compare Italian cacciatore.
Noun
[edit]cacciaturi m needs inflection
- hunter
- c. 1316–1337, Angelo di Capua, La Istoria di Eneas, translation of original by Virgil, L. 9, pag. 164.5:
- curria contra li lanzi comu la fera quandu esti turniyata da li cachaturi, la quali curri in killa parti duvi vidi li spissi lanzi […]
- it ran towards the spears like an animal when surrounded by hunters, which runs in the direction where it sees the most spears
- (military) chasseur, a soldier form light infantry
Descendants
[edit]- → Arbëresh Albanian: kaçatúr
References
[edit]- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 518: “il cacciatore” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “cacciaturi”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 606
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cacciaturi”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 224
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “cacciaturi”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 125
- “cacciatore”, in TLIO – Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini