scarfare

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• scalfare (archaic)
• scarfà (alt. spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *excalfāre.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ʃkarˈfa]

Verb

scarfare

1. to heat up
2. to reheat

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 937: “riscaldare la stanza” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “scarfare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano