dimura

Sicilian

Etymology

Deverbal from dimurari, from Latin dēmoror, dēmorārī. Compare Italian dimora and literary Italian dimura.

Noun

dimura f (plural dimuri)

1. residence, house
2. delay

Synonyms

• dimuranza

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “dimura”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1318