cileccu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یلك (yelek), whence Turkish yelek.

Noun

cileccu m (plural cilecchi)

  1. waistcoat
    Synonyms: bustu, birlicu, curpiceddu, giammirghinu
    Near-synonym: jippuni
    Stu cileccu mi veni bonu.
    This waistcoat fits me well.

Descendants
  • → Maltese: ġlekk

References
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “cileccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 852
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cileccu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 318
  • Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “cileccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 173
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