pagliaccio
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un pagliaccio dai capelli rossi ― a red-haired clown
Italian
Alternative forms
- pagliaccia, pagliazza (archaic, only sense 3)
Etymology
From paglia (“straw”) + -accio. Originally in sense 3 exclusively, sense 1 developed as the traditional Italian character's outfit was made of the same fabric used to cover straw mattresses. Cognate with Piedmontese pajasso.
Pronunciation
Noun
pagliaccio m (plural pagliacci, feminine pagliaccia)
- clown
- Synonym: clown
- 1889, Edmondo De Amicis, “Febbraio”, in Cuore, page 139:
- Scrivi un bell’articolo sulla Gazzetta, – gli disse, – tu che sai scrivere: tu racconti i miracoli del piccolo pagliaccio e io faccio il suo ritratto; la Gazzetta la leggon tutti, e almeno per una volta accorrerà gente. […]
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- 1892, Ruggero Leoncavallo (lyrics and music), “Vesti la Giubba”:
- Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto
- Laugh, clown, at thy broken love
- (derogatory) fool, buffoon (unintentionally ridiculous person)
- Synonym: buffone
- (archaic) straw mattress, pallet
- Synonyms: pagliericcio, paglione
- (archaic) minced straw
- Synonym: pagliccio
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants of pagliaccio
- → Alemannic German: Pajass m
- → Arabic: بِلْيَاتْشُو m (bilyātšū)
- → Asturian: payasu m
- → Basque: pailazo
- → Catalan: pallasso m
- → Danish: bajads c
- → Dutch: paljas m
- → Esperanto: pajaco
- → Finnish: pajatso
- → French: paillasse m, paillassine f
- → Galician: pallaso m
- → German: Bajazzo m
- → Greek: παλιάτσος m (paliátsos)
- → Hungarian: pojáca
- → Interlingua: paliasso
- → Norwegian: bajas m
- → Occitan: palhassa m
- → Polish: pajac m anim
- → Portuguese: palhaço m
- Hunsrik: Paliass
- → Romanian: paiață f
- → Russian: пая́ц m anim (pajác)
- → Serbo-Croatian: па̀јац m, pàjac m
- → Sicilian: pagghiazzu m, pagliazzu m
- → Spanish: payaso m, payasa f
- → Swedish: pajas c, pajazzo c
- → Ottoman Turkish: پالیاچو (palyaço)
- → Uzbek: palyaço
- → Vilamovian: pȧjacca m
- → Yiddish: פּאַיאַץ m (payats)
References
- pagliaccio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- “pagliàccio”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 12 orad–pere, UTET, 1984, page 366f.