trabaccolo

English

Noun

trabaccolo (plural trabaccolos or trabaccoli)

  1. A kind of two-masted Adriatic Sea sailing coaster.

Italian

Etymology

Part of a family of related words used around and near the Adriatic, often dropping the last syllable. Compare Venetian trabaco, Ottoman Turkish طراباقو (trabako), French trébac (short form), Greek τραμπάχουλο (trampáchoulo) (long form).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /traˈbak.ko.lo/
  • Rhymes: -akkolo
  • Hyphenation: tra‧bàc‧co‧lo

Noun

trabaccolo m (plural trabaccoli)

  1. a small, two-masted sailing vessel

Further reading
  • trabaccolo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 660, page 440

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