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Sicilian
Etymology
By surface analysis, pèttini + -icchiu. Corresponds to Vulgar Latin *pectinī̆culum.
Noun
pettinicchiu m (plural pettinicchi)
- diminutive of pèttini; little comb
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “pittinicchiu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3126
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “pittinicchiu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 129