Neapolitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin veclus, from Latin vetulus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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viecchio (feminine singular vecchia, masculine plural viecchie, feminine plural vecchie)

  1. old

References

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 55: “una vecchia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “viécchio-vècchia”, in Schedario Napoletano
  • Ledgeway, Adam (2009) Grammatica diacronica del napoletano, Tübingen: Niemeyer, page 80