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Sicilian
Etymology
Possibly from the same source of Portuguese você; which is from the syncope of vosmecê, elision of vossemecê, contraction of Old Galician-Portuguese vossa mercee (literally “your mercy”) (today's mercê) from Latin vostra + mercēs. Compare with Spanish usted (from vuestra merced (literally “your mercy”)), Catalan vostè, and Italian vossignoria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /(v)ʊsˈsi.a/
- Hyphenation: vus‧sì‧a
Pronoun
vussìa f sg (singular only)
- (formal, honorific, courtly, now dated) indefinite pronoun; Your Lordship, Your Ladyship, Your Excellency
- Synonym: vuscenza
Vussìa 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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