frocia

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Italian

Adjective

frocia

  1. feminine singular of frocio

Anagrams

Sicilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain. Likely from Latin flūxus (passed through a minor Italian cognate stratum). Cognate with Italian frocio~floscio, Galician frouxo, Portuguese chocho, Spanish flojo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾɔ.ʃa/ (Standard)
  • Hyphenation: fro‧cia

Noun

frocia f (plural froci)

  1. (western Sicily) omelette, frittata
    Synonyms: frittata, malassata, pisci d'ovu, padiḍḍata d'ova
    finiri a frocia ― to go wrong (literally, “to end up like an omelette”)
    Guastàrisi na frocia di centu ova.
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    Jetta li manu e fa na frocia.
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    (literally, “He works hard and makes an omelette.”)
  2. mistake
    fari na frocia ― to make a mistake
  3. Synonym of moja (“liquid feces, diarrhea”)

Descendants

  • → Maltese: froġa

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 1006: “la frittata” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “fròcia”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1729
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “froscia”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 164
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