litraru
Appearance
Sicilian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from litra (“unit of measure for oil, litre”).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective
[edit]litraru (feminine singular litrara, masculine and feminine plural litrari)
- (central Calabria, often nominalized) lazy, idler, good-for-nothing
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- 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