cileccu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• gileccu, gilè

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یلك (yelek), whence Turkish yelek.

Noun

cileccu m (plural cilecchi)

1. waistcoat

   Synonyms: bustu, birlicu, curpiceddu, giammirghinu

   Near-synonym: jippuni

   Stu cileccu mi veni bonu.

   This waistcoat fits me well.

Descendants

• → Maltese: ġlekk

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “cileccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 852
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cileccu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 318
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “cileccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 173