piattu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• prattu

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian piatto (“plate”). Doublet of chiattu (“fat; flat”).

Noun

piattu m (plural piatta or piatti)

1. plate, dish

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 947: “..le stoviglie..” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 974: “il tondo..” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Further reading

• Traina, Antonino (1868), “piattu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 3034–3035