campanaru

Sicilian

Etymology

From campana (“bell”) +‎ -aru. Compare Spanish campanario, Greek καμπαναριό (kampanarió, “bell tower”) and Italian campanaro, Spanish campanero (“bell ringer”).

Noun

campanaru m (plural campanari)

1. bell tower, belfry, campanile (steeple of a church containing a bell)

   Synonym: campanili

   girari comu la bannirola di lu campanaru ― to be unstable (literally, “to spin like the bell tower's weather vane”)

2. bell ringer (someones who rings bells)

   Synonym: campanarista

3. bellmaker (someone who makes bells)

   Synonym: campaniddaru

4. entrails, guts
5. Synonym of pupu cu l'ovu
6. (sulfur mining) A place where the ceiling of the sulfur mine is muddy and precarious.
7. the head of a cod

Descendants

• → Maltese: kampnar

See also

• (mining): English cauldron bottom

Adjective

campanaru (feminine singular campanara, masculine and feminine plural campanari)

1. leading (animal) wearing a bell on its neck

   bestia campanara ― leading animal

   crastu campanaru ― bellwether

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “campanaru”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 637
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “campanaru”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 236
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “campanaru”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 131