pataffio
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin epitaphium (“eulogy”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios, “funereal”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pataffio m (plural pataffi)
- (obsolete, now chiefly humorous) Synonym of epitaffio (“epitaph”)
- 1350s, anonymous author, “Prologo e primo capitolo [Preface and first chapter]”, in Cronica [Chronicle][1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:
- ’Nanti lo tiempo de questo non era lettera. […] Donne le memorie se facevano con scoiture in sassi e pataffii
- Before his time there were no letters. […] thus memoirs were made through incisions on rocks, and epitaphs