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Sicilian
Etymology
Borrowed, and nativized, from Spanish vuecencia, from vue(stra) + (ex)c(el)encia, literally “your excellency”.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: vu‧scèn‧za
Pronoun
vuscenza f sg (singular only)
- (formal, honorific, courtly, now dated) indefinite pronoun; Your Lordship, Your Ladyship, Your Excellency
- Synonym: vussìa
Vuscenza vulissi n'anticchia di acqua?- Would you like to drink some water?
- (polite, slightly ironic) you
Usage notes
- In place of the indicative present tense, this noun is typically used with the subjunctive past tense, third-person singular, to express a kind and indirect utterance.
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