petonciano

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Italian

FWOTD – 30 September 2018

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Etymology

From Arabic بَاتِنْجَان (bātinjān), from now archaic Persian باتنگان (bâtengân), from Sanskrit भण्टाकी (bhaṇṭākī, “aubergine”). Compare melanzana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pe.tonˈt͡ʃa.no/
  • Rhymes: -ano
  • Hyphenation: pe‧ton‧cià‧no

Noun

petonciano m (plural petonciani)

  1. (rare, central Italy, chiefly Tuscan) aubergine (British); eggplant (US)
    Synonym: (common usage) melanzana
    • 1876, Pellegrino Artusi, La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene [The Science of Cooking and the Art of Fine Dining]‎, BUR, published 2010, →ISBN:
      Sono da preferirsi i petonciani piccoli e di mezzana grandezza, nel timore che i grossi non siano amari per troppa maturazione.
      Small or medium-sized aubergines should be preferred, fearing the bigger ones are bitter due to excessive ripeness.
    • 2014, Giovanni Ballarini, La cucina dei numeri primi [The Cookery of Prime Numbers]‎, Tarka, →ISBN:
      Nei diversi dialetti italiani la melanzana è denominata petonciano, petronciano o petronciana, merinzana, maranzana, merignani (nel Lazio), malignane (in Campania), milangiane (in Calabria), mulinciani (in Sicilia) e dizioni similari.
      In the various dialects of Italy eggplant is named petonciano, petronciano or petronciana, merinzana, maranzana, merignani (in Lazio), malignane (in Campania), milangiane (in Calabria), mulinciani (in Sicily) and similar denominations.

Further reading

  • petonciano in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • “petonciano” in Grande Dizionario Italiano, Hoepli

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