Ladino

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Etymology

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From Greek φασαρία (fasaría, unwanted noise) from Italian fesseria (stupidity, nonsense).

Noun

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fasaria

  1. a fuss, to-do, agitation, bustle (making a great show of the difficulty of the work one is undertaking)

Further reading

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  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “fasaría”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 96