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Sicilian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Latin plumbum (“lead”). Compare Italian piombo and Neapolitan chiummo.
Noun
chiummu m (plural chiummi)
- (uncountable) lead (metal)
- caminari cu li pedi di chiummu ― to proceed with caution (literally, “to walk with lead feet”)
- (construction, countable) plumb bob
- fari li cosi cu lu chiummu e lu cumpassu ― to do things with the utmost care (literally, “to do things with the plumb bob and compass”)
- (hunting, uncountable) birdshots
- Synonym: paparina
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References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 408: “come il piombo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “chiummu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 833
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “chiummu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 311