cileccu
Sicilian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یلك (yelek), whence Turkish yelek.
Noun edit
cileccu m (plural cilecchi)
- waistcoat
- Synonyms: bustu, birlicu, curpiceddu, giammirghinu
- Near-synonym: jippuni
- Stu cileccu mi veni bonu.
- This waistcoat fits me well.
Descendants edit
- → Maltese: ġlekk
References edit
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “cileccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 852
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cileccu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 318
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “cileccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 173