casucavaḍḍu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• cascavaḍḍu (dialectal, haplological)
• caciucavaḍḍu (palatalized)
• casu-cavaḍḍu, caciu-cavaḍḍu (hyphenated)
• casucavallu, cascavallu, caciucavallu (non retroflected forms)
• cosa-cavaḍḍu, cosacavaḍḍu (hypercorrected)

Etymology 1

From casu (“cheese”) +‎ cavaḍḍu (“horse”). Doublet of caciucavaḍḍu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.su.kaˈvaɖ.ɖu/, [ka.sʊ.kaˈvaɖ.ɖʊ], [ka.ska-], [ka.ʃʊ.ka-]
• Rhymes: -aɖɖu
• Hyphenation: ca‧su‧ca‧và‧ḍḍu

• Audio:

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Noun

casucavaḍḍu (plural casucavaḍḍi)

1. (countable and uncountable) caciocavallo/kashkaval (type of cheese)

Descendants

• → Italian: cascavaddu [palermitano]
• → Italian: cosacavaddu [ragusano]
• → Italian: caciocavallo (calque) (together with Neapolitan) (see there for further descendants)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قاشقوال (kaşkaval) (see there for further descendants)

See also

• cagghiu
• furmaggiu
• latti
• murtadeḍḍa
• murtiḍḍa
• muzzareḍḍa
• pruvuletta
• prùvula
• ricotta
• scamorza
• tuma
• tumazzu

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Akin to Italian cacciaccavallo.

Noun

cascavaḍḍu (plural cascavaḍḍi)

1. (nautical, archaic) cacciaccavallo (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “casucavaḍḍu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 748
• “cacciaccavallo”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 2 balc–cerr, UTET, 1962, page 478b