chiummu
Sicilian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin plumbum (“lead”). Compare Italian piombo and Neapolitan chiummo.
Noun edit
chiummu m (plural chiummi)
- (uncountable) lead (metal)
- (construction, countable) plumb bob
- (hunting, uncountable) birdshots
- Synonym: paparina
Derived terms edit
- a chiummu
- acchiummari (“to plumb, to use a plumb bob as an aligning tool”, verb)
- botta di chiummu
Descendants edit
- → Maltese: ċomb
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 408: “come il piombo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “chiummu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 833
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “chiummu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 311