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Sicilian
Etymology
From Latin pīpiō, pīpiōnem (“chirping bird”).
Noun
picciuni m (plural picciuna or picciuni)
- pigeon
- Synonym: palummu
A la morti si spinna lu picciuni.- Someone's will goes into effect once they die.
- (literally, “The feathers of the pigeon are plucked when it died.”)
- chick (young bird)
- Synonym: puddicinu
- grown-up bird who still hasn't left its nest, or has just left it
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References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 1151: “il piccione; i piccioni” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “picciuni”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3045
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “picciuni”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 91
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “picciuni”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 647