coccare
Neapolitan
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Latin collocāre.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editcoccare
- (transitive) to lay down
- (intransitive and reflexive) to lie down, go to bed
- 1976, La Gatta Cenerentola, Second Act:
- Matrigna: Pripara lu lietto e fallo cuccà c''o 'mbamberambì e 'o 'mbamberambà!
Cenerentola: Oi mamma s'è cuccato!
Coro: Bim bom bà!- Stepmother: Make the bed and make him lie down with the [jibberish]!
Cindrella: Hey mother, he lay down!
Chorus: Bim bom bà!
- Stepmother: Make the bed and make him lie down with the [jibberish]!
References
edit- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 659: “è coricato; coricarsi” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “coccare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano