catusu

Sicilian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَادُوس (qādūs).

Noun

catusu m (plural catusi)

1. pipe, conduit, duct

   catusu mastru ― the main pipe, (figuratively) rectum

   catusu di chiummu ― lead pipe

2. (figurative) Anything that is oblong and malformed.

Descendants

• → Maltese: katusa

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “catusu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 774
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “catusu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 159
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “catusu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino‎^[1] (in Italian), volume 286