fusaglia
Italian
Alternative forms
- fusaia
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Romanesco) [fuˈsajja]
Noun
fusaglia f (plural fusaglie)
- (Rome, usually in the plural) lupin bean
- Synonym: lupino
- 1886, G. G. Belli, “Mosconi regazzi”, in Sonetti Romaneschi, lines 10–11:
- Poteva, pe ccristo, / Stà a vvenne le fusajje a ccasa sua.
- He could have, for Christ's sake, sold lupins from his house.
Further reading
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1383: “i lupini” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it