litraru

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Sicilian

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Etymology

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Possibly from litra (unit of measure for oil, litre).

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Adjective

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litraru (feminine singular litrara, masculine and feminine plural litrari)

  1. (central Calabria, often nominalized) lazy, idler, good-for-nothing

Descendants

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  • Albanian: litrarCalabria

References

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  • Francesco Scerbo (1886) “litràru”, in Sul Dialetto Calabro (in Italian), page 100
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 719: “pigro” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it