agghiummarari

agghiummarari

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• agghiommarari
• agghiummariari

Etymology

Inherited from Latin agglomerō, agglomerāre (“to wind into a ball”).

Verb

agghiummarari (past participle agghiummaratu)

1. (transitive)
   1. to wind (into a ball of thread)

      agghiummarari lu filu ― to unravel the thread (from a skein) (literally, “to wind the thread in a ball”)

   2. to eat exceedingly; to stuff oneself

      Agghiòmmara e agghiutti.

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2. (reflexive)
   1. to curl up (on oneself), huddle
      • c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter I, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, introduction:

        Sanciu si agghiummaría ’mmenzu la nivi; […]

        Sancho was huddling in the snow; […]

   2. to fight

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868), “agghiummarari e agghiommarari”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 157
• Pasqualino (c. 1790), “agghiummariari”, “agghiummariarisi”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 58