cartuleggi

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• cartuleci

Etymology

Ultimately from carta (“paper”).

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Noun

cartuleggi m pl

1. old useless papers

   cartuleggi di so nannu — (see entry)

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “cartuleggi”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 737
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cartuleci”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 270
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “cartulègi”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 151