pagliaccio
Italian
Etymology
The traditional Italian character's outfit was made of the same fabric used to cover straw mattresses: from paglia (“straw”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin palea (“chaff”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
pagliaccio m (plural pagliacci, feminine pagliaccia)
- (also derogatory) clown, buffoon
- 1889, Edmondo De Amicis, “Febbraio”, in Cuore, page 139:
- Scrivi un bell’articolo sulla Gazzetta, – gli disse, – tu che sai scrivere: tu racconti i miracoli del piccolo pagliaccio e io faccio il suo ritratto; la Gazzetta la leggon tutti, e almeno per una volta accorrerà gente. […]
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Derived terms
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants
- Alemannic German: Pajass m
- Asturian: payasu m
- Basque: pailazo
- Catalan: pallasso m
- Dutch: paljas m
- Esperanto: pajaco
- Finnish: pajatso
- French: paillasse m, paillassine f
- Galician: pallaso m
- German: Bajazzo m
- Greek: παλιάτσος m (paliátsos)
- Hungarian: pojáca
- Interlingua: paliasso
- Norwegian: bajas m
- Occitan: palhassa m
- Polish: pajac m anim
- Portuguese: palhaço m
- Hunsrik: Paliass
- Romanian: paiață f
- Russian: пая́ц m anim (pajác)
- Serbo-Croatian: па̀јац m, pàjac m
- Sicilian: pagghiazzu m, pagliazzu m
- Spanish: payaso m, payasa f
- Swedish: pajas c, pajazzo c
- Turkish: palyaço
- Vilamovian: pȧjacca m
- Yiddish: פּאַיאַץ m (payats)