Sicilian edit

Etymology edit

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

Verb edit

ripizzari (1 sing. present indicative ripezzu)

  1. (transitive) to patch, darn
    Synonym: arripizzari

Descendants edit

  • Albanian: ripecanjCalabria

Further reading edit

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