cileccu
Sicilian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یلك (yelek), whence Turkish yelek.
Noun
[edit]cileccu m (plural cilecchi)
- waistcoat
- Synonyms: bustu, birlicu, curpiceddu, giammirghinu
- Near-synonym: jippuni
- Stu cileccu mi veni bonu.
- This waistcoat fits me well.
Descendants
[edit]- → Maltese: ġlekk
References
[edit]- Traina, Antonino (1868) “cileccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 852
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cileccu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 318
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “cileccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 173