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Italian
Etymology
From becco (“male goat, billy”) + -aio (“-er”). Cognate with English butcher, French boucher, Lombard becchee, Piedmontese bëcché, Venetian becaro, and Sicilian vucceri, among others.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bekˈka.jo/
- Rhymes: -ajo
- Hyphenation: bec‧cà‧io
Noun
beccaio m (plural beccai, feminine beccaia)
- (obsolete) one who sells goat meat
- (by extension, obsolete or regional) butcher
- Synonym: macellaio
Derived terms
Further reading
- beccaio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana