Sicilian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin spūtum + -azza.

Noun edit

sputazza f (uncountable)

  1. spit, saliva

References edit

  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “sputazza”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4020
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “sputazza”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 5, page 99
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 172: “lo sputo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it