caciocavallo

See also: Caciocavallo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caciocavallo, from cacio (“cheese”) +‎ a cavallo (“on horseback”), from Sicilian casucavaḍḍu, from the custom of draping two cheeses over a pole to dry. Doublet of kashkaval.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑːtʃəʊkəˈvɑːləʊ/

Noun

caciocavallo (usually uncountable, plural caciocavallos)

1. An Italian cheese, similar to provolone, originally from Sicily and the South.

Related terms

• kashkaval

Translations

Italian cheese type — see also kashkaval

• Albanian: kaçkavall (sq) m
• Arabic: قَشْقَوَان m (qašqawān)
• Armenian: կաչոկավալո (kačʻokavalo)
• Bulgarian: кашкава́л (bg) m (kaškavál), качокавало (kačokavalo)
• Finnish: caciocavallo
• French: caciocavallo (fr) m, kachkaval (fr) m
• German: Caciocavallo (de) m, Kaschkawal
• Greek: κασκαβάλι (el) n (kaskaváli)
• Hebrew: קשקבל (he)
• Hungarian: kaskavál
• Italian: caciocavallo (it) m
• Japanese: カチョカヴァッロ (kachokavarro)
• Korean: 카치오카발로 (kachiokaballo)
• Latin: cascabellus m
• Macedonian: кашкавал (mk) m (kaškaval)
• Polish: kaszkawał m
• Romanian: cașcaval (ro) n
• Russian: качокава́лло m (kačokavállo), кашкава́л (ru) m (kaškavál)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: качка̀ва̄љ m

  Latin: kačkàvālj (sh) m

• Sicilian: casucavaḍḍu m, cosacavaḍḍu m
• Turkish: kaşkaval (tr)
• Ukrainian: качіокава́ло (kačiokaválo)
• Veps: kačokavallo

Further reading

• caciocavallo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

From cacio (“cheese”) +‎ cavallo (“horse”), inherited from Old Italian. More likely calqued from Neapolitan, or Sicilian casucavaḍḍu (or from dialectal cascavaḍḍu). Doublet of cosacavaddu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌka.t͡ʃo.kaˈval.lo/
• Rhymes: -allo
• Hyphenation: ca‧cio‧ca‧vàl‧lo

Noun

caciocavallo m (plural caciocavalli or cacicavalli)

1. caciocavallo

Further reading

• caciocavallo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it