vuscenza

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• voscenza (borrowed from or influenced by Italian voscenza)

Etymology

Borrowed, and nativized, from Spanish vuecencia, from vue(stra) +‎ (ex)c(el)encia, literally “your excellency”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [(v)ʊʃˈʃɛn.t͡sa]
• Hyphenation: vu‧scèn‧za

Pronoun

vuscenza f sg (singular only)

2. (formal, honorific, courtly, now dated) indefinite pronoun; Your Lordship, Your Ladyship, Your Excellency

   Synonym: vussìa

   Vuscenza vulissi n'anticchia di acqua?

   Would you like to drink some water?

3. (polite, slightly ironic) you

Usage notes

• In place of the indicative present tense, this noun is typically used with the subjunctive past tense, third-person singular, to express a kind and indirect utterance.

Derived terms

• vuscenza a-binidica
• vuscenza abbinidica

 

Related terms

• iḍḍa
• iḍḍi
• iḍḍu
• jù
• nui
• nuiautri
• tu
• vui
• vuiautri
• vussìa

 

Descendants

• → Italian: voscenza