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Italian
Etymology
From Lombard articioch or Borrowed from Occitan artichaut, from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ẖaršúf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf). Doublet of carciofo.[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar.tiˈt͡ʃɔk.ko/
- Rhymes: -ɔkko
- Hyphenation: ar‧ti‧ciòc‧co
Noun
articiocco m (plural articiocchi)
- (northern Italy) artichoke
1826, Flora veneta, volume 1, page 89:
1840 May 1, Giornale agrario Lombardo-Veneto, page 176:
Descendants
References
- ^ Elcock, W. D. (1960) The Romance Languages, page 282: "Borrowed directly from the Qairawān–Sicily region, without the article, the same Arabic word appears in Italian as carciofo; the Spanish form penetrated, however, into Provence, where it became archichaut, arquichaut, and thence into northern Italy as articiocco".
- ^ “alcachofa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- ^ artichaut in Dicod'oc