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Sicilian
Etymology
By surface analysis, punta + -utu. Compare Italian puntuto, French pointu, Portuguese pontudo.
Adjective
puntutu (feminine singular puntuta, masculine and feminine plural puntuti)
- pointed, sharp
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “puntutu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3265
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “puntutu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 188