ripizzari

Sicilian

Etymology

From ri- +‎ pezza +‎ -ari. Compare Italian rappezzare.

Verb

ripizzari (1 sing. present indicative ripezzu)

1. (transitive) to patch, darn

   Synonym: arripizzari

Descendants

• → Albanian: ripecanj — Calabria

Further reading

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “ripizzari”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3457