Xibbetta

Sicilian

Etymology

Clipping of Calaxibbetta. Doublet of Scibbetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪbˈbɛt.ta/
• Hyphenation: Xib‧bèt‧ta

Proper noun

Xibbetta m

1. Calascibetta (a town, in Sicily, Italy)
2. a surname

Usage notes

• The grapheme ⟨x⟩ is here employed for /ʃ/ as many instances of /ʃ/ in Old Sicilian do derive from a Latin x, as for example coscia, otherwise this symbol has however been used to adopt borrowings from foreign languages. The grapheme was also widely used in Ibero-Romance languages with the same scope.

Derived terms

• scibbitanu
• scibbitanu
• sciurbisa
• sciurbisi
• xibbitana
• xibbitanu

 

Descendants

• Sicilian: Scibbetta
  • → Italian: Scibetta