caciu
Sicilian
editEtymology
editProbably borrowed from Italian cacio, from Latin cāseus. Doublet of casu, the native outcome in Calabria and Salento.
Noun
editcaciu m (plural caci)
- (chiefly Palermo, countable and uncountable) cheese
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Traina, Antonino (1868) “càciu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 607
- 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