stotare

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• stutare, stotà, stutà (alt. spellings)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *extūtāre, from Latin tūtārī (“avert, ward off”).

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [stuˈta]

Verb

stotare

1. to extinguish, put out, turn off (a light)

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 921: “spegnere la fiamma” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “stotare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano