paparina
Sicilian
editEtymology
editContraction of *papavarina, inherited from Latin papāver (“poppy”) + -ina.[1] Compare Greek παπαρούνα (paparoúna).
Noun
editpaparina f (plural paparini)
- poppy (Papaver rhoeas or P. somniferum)
- paparina curnuta ― horned poppy (Glaucium flavum)
- (hunting, uncountable) Synonym of chiummu (“birdshots”)
References
editFurther reading
edit- Traina, Antonino (1868) “paparina”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 2916–2917