cascavaddu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• cascavallu (regional or archaic)

Etymology 1

From caciu (“cheese”) +‎ cavaḍḍu (“horse”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

cascavaḍḍu (plural cascavaḍḍi)

1. (countable and uncountable) caciocavallo (type of cheese)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: قاشقوال (kaşkaval) (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: caciocavallo (calque) (together with Neapolitan) (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

Akin to Italian cacciaccavallo.

Noun

cascavaḍḍu (plural cascavaḍḍi)

1. (nautical, archaic) cacciaccavallo (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “cascavaddu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 748
• Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “cacciaccavallo”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 2, page 478