cazzo
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See also: cazzò
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Of uncertain origin.[1][2][3] One possibility is from a contraction of Latin capitium (“small head”)[4] (cf. also capezzo, capezza), or from Byzantine Greek ακάτιον (akátion, “main mast”).[5] See also caspita.
Noun
cazzo m (plural cazzi, diminutive cazzétto or cazzettìno, pejorative cazzàccio, augmentative-derogatory cazzóne) (vulgar)
- (vulgar) dick, cock, prick
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cazzo
- 1526, Pietro Aretino, “Sonetto IV [Sonnet 4]” (chapter 4), in Sonetti lussuriosi [Lustful sonnets], lines 1–4; republished in Dubbî amorosi, altri dubbî e sonetti lussuriosi di Pietro Aretino, dedicati al clero, Rome: Stamperia Vaticana, 1792, page 42:
- Questo cazzo vogl’io più ch’un tesoro!
Questo è quel ben, che mi può far felice!
Or questo si che è ben da Imperatrice!
Questa gemma val più d’un pozzo d’oro!- I want this dick more than a treasure! This is the possession that can make me happy! Now, this is a possession worthy of an empress! This gem is worth more than a wellful of gold!
- early-mid- to mid-19th century, Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, Le confidenze de le regazze, lines 5–8; republished as “Le confidenze de le regazze II”, in Marcello Teodonio, editor, Tutti i sonetti romaneschi di G. G. Belli, Rome, 1998:
- Quer coso disce che sse chiama uscello,
oppuro cazzo, e ll’antri dua cojjoni.
Io je fesce: «E cch’edè sto ggiucarello?
E sti du’ pennolini a cche ssò bboni?». (Rome)- He said that thing is called a cock, or a dick; and the other two balls. I asked him: "What is this little toy? And what are these two pendants good for?"
- 1928, Hertz De Benedetti, “Atto primo [First act]”, in Ifigonia in Culide:
- Il Sir di Corinto, dal nobile augello
qual mai non fu visto più duro e più bello.
Il sir di Corinto dall’agile pene
terrore e ruina del fragile imene;
il sir di Corinto dal cazzo peloso
del cul rubicondo ognora goloso.- The lord of Corinth, with his noble cock, such that never a harder or more beautiful one was ever seen. The lord of Corinth, with his swift penis, terror and ruin for the fragile hymen; the lord of Corinth, with his hairy dick, ever hungry for ruddy ass.
- (un cazzo) shit (US), jackshit (US), sod all (UK), bugger all (UK)
- c. 1800, G. G. Belli, “Er giudisce”, in Sonetti Romaneschi:
- Jeri, a la fine, er Monziggnore mio,
Fattose inzino in faccia pavonazzo,
Sartò in piede e strillò: “Zzitti, per dio!
Ch’edè, ssignori miei, sto schiaramazzo?
Se tratta cqua ch’è ggià un par d’ora ch’io
Do le sentenze senza intenne un cazzo„.- Yesterday, my monsignor, having turned purple up to his face, jumped up and yelled: "Shut up, by God! Gentlemen, what is all this loudness? I'll have you know that I've been passing sentences while hearing fuck all for two hours now!"
- 2013, Paolo Sorrentino, 00:21:49 from the start, in La grande bellezza, spoken by Talia Concept (Anita Kravos):
- Sono un'artista, non devo spiegare un cazzo.
- I'm an artist, I don't have to explain jackshit.
- (in the plural, followed by a possessive pronoun, vulgar) problems; business, matters
- 2019, Sal Ferranti, Amico, ti aspetto (energia.0; 5), Palermo: Urban Apnea Edizioni, page 33:
- - Se sei libero, tra due giorni ci vediamo.
- Passata la febbre?
L'ironia nella sua voce non mi piacque per niente.
- Avevo i cazzi miei, come ce li hanno tutti.- - If you're free, we'll see each other in two days.
- Is your fever over?
I didn't like the irony in his voice one bit.
- I had my problems, just like everybody else does.
- - If you're free, we'll see each other in two days.
- farsi i cazzi proprî
- to mind one's own fucking business
- 2008, Simone Tempia, Una brutta storia; collected in Vorrei vedere te - Racconti, Pavia: Edizioni O.M.P., 2008, →ISBN, page 35:
- — Il whisky nella birra? Ma che fai?
— Mi faccio i cazzi miei con un barista che, a quanto pare, i suoi non se li fa mai.- - Whisky with beer? What on earth are you doing?
- I'm minding my own fucking business, together with a barman who apparently never minds his own.
- - Whisky with beer? What on earth are you doing?
- per i cazzi proprî
- by oneself, on one's own (vulgar)
Derived terms
Interjection
cazzo
- fuck!, shit! (expressing frustration, surprise, or anger)
- used as an intensifier, often replacing cosa or che, similar to "what the fuck".
- Che cazzo vuoi?
- What the fuck do you want?
- Cazzo guardi?
- The fuck are you looking at?
- good grief
- my ass!
- Buongiorno un cazzo!
- Good morning my ass!
Derived terms
- cagacazzo, cacacazzo (“a person who is anal about something, overtly pedant”)
- cazzaro (“person who says a lot of insensate words”)
- cazzata (“bullshit”)
- cazzi e mazzi (“shit and whatnot”, literally “dicks and decks”)
- cazzo di
- cazzone (“very stupid person”)
- cazzotto
- cazzuto (“ballsy”)
- del cazzo
- grazie al cazzo (“no shit”)
- incazzarsi (“to get pissed”)
- stare sul cazzo
- sticazzi (“given fucks”)
- stocazzo (“these nuts”)
- testa di cazzo
Descendants
Etymology 2
Verb
cazzo
References
- ^ cazzo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ^ cazzo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- ^ cazzo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “cazzo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
- ^ Battisti, Carlo; Alessio, Giovanni (1950–57). Dizionario etimologico italiano. Firenze: Barbera.