lìnnina

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Sicilian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin lendina, ultimately from Latin lendis f. Compare Italian lendine m.

Noun[edit]

lìnnina f (plural lìnnini)

  1. nit (egg of a louse)

References[edit]

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 476: “i lendini” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “lìnnina”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2267
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