beccaio
Italian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom becco (“male goat, billy”) + -aio (“-er”). Cognate with English butcher, French boucher, Lombard becchee, Piedmontese bëcché, Venetian becaro, and Sicilian vucceri, among others.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbeccaio m (plural beccai, feminine beccaia)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- beccaio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana