litraru

Sicilian

Etymology

Possibly from litra (“unit of measure for oil, litre”).

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Adjective

litraru (feminine singular litrara, masculine and feminine plural litrari)

1. (central Calabria, often nominalized) lazy, idler, good-for-nothing

Descendants

• → Albanian: litrar — Calabria

References

• Francesco Scerbo (1886) “litràru”, in Sul Dialetto Calabro (in Italian), page 100
• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 719: “pigro” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it