curveddu
Sicilian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From corvu (“crow”) + -eddu, because of its dark colour. Compare Italian corvello.
Noun edit
curveddu m (plural curveddi) (especially Messina)
Descendants edit
- → Maltese: gurbell
Further reading edit
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “curveddu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4737