frocia

Italian

Adjective

frocia

1. feminine singular of frocio

Anagrams

• africo, corifa, orfica

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• froscia

Etymology

Uncertain. Likely from Latin flūxus (passed through a minor Italian cognate stratum). Cognate with Italian frocio~floscio, Galician frouxo, Portuguese chocho, Spanish flojo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾɔ.ʃa/ (Standard)
• Hyphenation: fro‧cia

Noun

frocia f (plural froci)

1. (western Sicily) omelette, frittata

   Synonyms: frittata, malassata, pisci d'ovu, padiḍḍata d'ova

   finiri a frocia ― to go wrong (literally, “to end up like an omelette”)

   Guastàrisi na frocia di centu ova.

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   Jetta li manu e fa na frocia.

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   (literally, “He works hard and makes an omelette.”)

2. mistake

   fari na frocia ― to make a mistake

3. Synonym of moja (“liquid feces, diarrhea”)

Descendants

• → Maltese: froġa

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1006: “la frittata” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Traina, Antonino (1868) “fròcia”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1729
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “froscia”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 164