frocia
Italian
editAdjective
editfrocia
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editSicilian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUncertain. Likely from Latin flūxus (passed through a minor Italian cognate stratum). Cognate with Italian frocio~floscio, Galician frouxo, Portuguese chocho, Spanish flojo.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfrocia f (plural froci)
- (western Sicily) omelette, frittata
- Synonyms: frittata, malassata, pisci d'ovu, padiḍḍata d'ova
- finiri a frocia ― to go wrong (literally, “to end up like an omelette”)
- Jetta li manu e fa na frocia.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (literally, “He works hard and makes an omelette.”)
- mistake
- fari na frocia ― to make a mistake
- Synonym of moja (“liquid feces, diarrhea”)
Descendants
edit- → Maltese: froġa
References
edit- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1006: “la frittata” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “fròcia”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1729
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “froscia”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 164