cacciaturi

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Sicilian

Etymology

From cacciari (to hunt) +‎ -turi, compare Italian cacciatore.

Noun

cacciaturi m needs inflection

  1. hunter
    • c. 1316–1337, Angelo di Capua, La Istoria di Eneas, translation of original by Virgil, L. 9, pag. 164.5:
      curria contra li lanzi comu la fera quandu esti turniyata da li cachaturi, la quali curri in killa parti duvi vidi li spissi lanzi []
      it ran towards the spears like an animal when surrounded by hunters, which runs in the direction where it sees the most spears
  2. (military) chasseur, a soldier form light infantry

Descendants

  • Arbëresh Albanian: kaçatúr

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweizmap 518: “il cacciatore” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “cacciaturi”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 606
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cacciaturi”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 224
  • Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “cacciaturi”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 125
  • cacciatore”, in TLIO – Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini