gozzo
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From (gar)gozza,[1] or gargozzo, itself from a root garg-[2] or from Vulgar Latin *gurgutia or *gargutium;[3] another etymology proposed is *guttium, variant of Latin guttur, confused with guttus;[4] alternatively, possibly from a derivative Vulgar Latin *gusia (compare French gosier, Friulan gose, Romanian guşă), from Late Latin geusiae, from Gaulish geusiae (compare Welsh gewai (“glutton”)).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gozzo m (plural gozzi)
- crop (of a bird)
- (anatomy) throat
- (medicine) goitre, goiter
- (nautical) fishing boat (with oars and sometimes a small sail)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ gózzo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- ^ gozzo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “gozzo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
- ^ http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/