cunocchia
Sicilian
Etymology
From Medieval Latin conucula, by dissimilation from colucula, diminutive of Latin colus (“distaff”). Compare Italian conocchia.
Noun
cunocchia f (plural cunocchi)
- (weaving) distaff
- Synonym: rocca
- hub (of a wheel)
- cunocchia di la rota ― wheel hub
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References
- Traina, Antonino (1868), “cunocchia”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 1147–1148
- Pasqualino (c. 1790), “cunocchia”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 385
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1502: “la rocca, la conocchia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it