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Sicilian
Etymology
From Latin -aceum/-acium. Compare Catalan -às/-aci, Italian -azzo/-accio, Galician and Spanish -azo, Portuguese -aço, French -asse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /-ˈatt͡su/,
- Hyphenation: -àz‧zu
Suffix
-azzu (feminine singular -azza, masculine and feminine plural -azzi)
- forms augmentatives of degree: nouns expressing a successful roughness
- bonu (“good”) + -azzu → bunazzu (“way good”)
- corpu (“blow”) + -azzu → curpazzu (“a great blow”)
- piru (“pear”) + -azzu → pirazzu (“an impressive pear”)
- sautu (“jump”) + -azzu → sautazzu (“an impressive jump”)
- forms augmentatives of size
- Synonym: -uni
- petra (“stone”) + -azzu → pitrazza (“a large stone”)
- balata (“flagstone”) + -azzu → balatazza (“a large flagstone”)
- forms pejoratives: nouns expressing a negative characteric
- Cristu (“Christ”) + -azzu → Cristazzu (“fucking Christ”)
- Carmelu (“Carmelu”) + -azzu → Carmilazzu (“fucking Carmelu”)
- Vastianu (“Sebastian”) + -azzu → Vastianazzu (“fucking Sebastian”)
- vaneḍḍa (“alley”) + -azzu → vaniḍḍazza (“a bad alley”)
- forms augmentatives of praise: nouns expressing a slight adulation and/or admiration
- Carmelu (“Carmelu”) + -azzu → Carmilazzu (“the great Carmelu”)
- Vastianu (“Sebastian”) + -azzu → Vastianazzu (“the great Sebastian”)
Derived terms