tumazzu

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Sicilian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From tuma (“fresh unsalted cheese”) +‎ -azzu.

Noun[edit]

tumazzu m (plural tumazzi)

  1. (Sicily, countable and uncountable) cheese
    Synonyms: caciu, furmaggiu, (outside of Sicily) casu
    • c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter II, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, introduction:
      L’Eroi s’addubba cu pani, e tumazzu; […]
      The hero had his fill of bread and cheese; […]

References[edit]

  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “tumazzu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4388
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1217: “salare il formaggio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
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