majali
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]majālī
Sicilian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin maiālis (“uncastrated pig”). Cognate with Italian maiale.
Noun
[edit]majali m (plural majali)
- (castrated) pig
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:porcu
- (derogatory) pig (fat person)
Descendants
[edit]- →? Maltese: majjal
References
[edit]- Traina, Antonino (1868) “majali”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2333
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “majali”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 3, page 76
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “majàli”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 505