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Sicilian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *focolarium. Compare Italian focolaio and focolare.
Noun
fucularu m (plural fuculari or fuculara)
- hearth, fireplace
- Synonyms: conca, tannura
- cunti di la nanna a lu fucularu ― tales, stories (literally, “grandma's stories at the fireplace”)
- a grouping, a gathering of some people, usually approached in the connotation of them being gossipy
- Synonym: curtigghiari
- fari fucularu ― to gossip (literally, “to do fireplace”)
- cosi di dìrisi a lu fucularu ― fibs, lies, rumours (literally, “things to say at the fireplace”)
- (blacksmithing) forge
- Synonyms: forgia, fucina
Descendants
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 931: “il focolare” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “fucularu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 1739–1740
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “fucularu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 168
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “fuculàru”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 402