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Sicilian
Etymology
Compare Italian noce pesca, pesca noce (“nectarine”), Venetan naspèrsego (“nectarine”). The term originally must have traditionally meant “nectarine” in Sicily as well, as also evidenced by Maltese nuċiprisk (“nectarine”), where it then got contaminated with the similar sounding cipressu (“cypress”), taking on its meaning.
Noun
nucipèrsicu m
- (Sicily) cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)
- Synonyms: cipressu, persicara
- Alternative form: nucipersu
- (Sicily) cypress seed
- Synonym: gaddarizza
- Alternative forms: nucipèrsica, nucipersa
- (Calabria) nectarine (Prunus persica var. nucipersica)
- Alternative forms: nucipèrzica, nucipèrzicu
Descendants
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “nucipèrsicu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2769
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “nucipèrsicu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 593
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “nucipersicu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 3, page 333