trabaccolo
English edit
Noun edit
trabaccolo (plural trabaccolos or trabaccoli)
- A kind of two-masted Adriatic Sea sailing coaster.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Part of a family of related words used around and near the Adriatic, often dropping the last syllable. Compare Venetian trabaco, Ottoman Turkish طراباقو (trabako), French trébac (short form), Greek τραμπάχουλο (trampáchoulo) (long form).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
trabaccolo m (plural trabaccoli)
- a small, two-masted sailing vessel
Further reading edit
- trabaccolo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 660, page 440