uccello

See also: uccellò

Italian

uccelli

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /utˈt͡ʃɛl.lo/

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• Rhymes: -ɛllo
• Hyphenation: uc‧cèl‧lo

Etymology 1

From Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis. Doublet of augello, which was borrowed from Occitan. Compare Neapolitan auciello, Ligurian öxéllo, Sicilian auceḍḍu.

Noun

uccello m (plural uccelli)

1. bird

   Synonyms: volatile, pennuto, augello (archaic)

2. (slang, vulgar) willy (British), peter (US), dick; (the penis)

Derived terms

• uccellaccio m (“bird of prey; bird of ill omen; dupe”)
• uccellagione f (“hunting or shooting birds; The season for doing this; the birds killed”)
• uccellaia f (“a large number of birds;a place where hawking takes place; confused chatter; affair (of the heart); deception; mockery”)
• uccellaio m (“bird breeder or seller”)
• uccellame m (“bag of gamebirds (caught by a hunter)”)
• uccellamento m, uccellatura f (“bird-catching; mockery; prank”)
• uccellanda f (“fowling (bird-catching) site”)
• uccellare (“to catch birds or fowl; to fool or trick”)
• uccellatoio m (“place for bird-catching”)
• uccellatore m (“bird-catcher”)
• uccelletto m (“small bird”)
• uccellino m (“little or young bird”)
• uccello mosca f (“hummingbird”)
• uccello rapace m (“bird of prey”)
• uccellone m (“big bird”)

Etymology 2

Verb

uccello

1. first-person singular present indicative of uccellare

Further reading

• uccello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana