trabaccolo
English
editNoun
edittrabaccolo (plural trabaccolos or trabaccoli)
- A kind of two-masted Adriatic Sea sailing coaster.
Italian
editEtymology
editPart of a family of related words used around and near the Adriatic, often dropping the last syllable. Compare Venetian trabaco, Ottoman Turkish طراباقو (trabako), French trébac (short form), Greek τραμπάχουλο (trampáchoulo) (long form).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittrabaccolo m (plural trabaccoli)
- a small, two-masted sailing vessel
Further reading
edit- trabaccolo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 660, page 440