scamorza

scamorza

English

Etymology

Italian scamorza

Noun

scamorza (uncountable)

1. An unfermented cow's-milk cheese from southern Italy.

Translations

southern Italian unfermented cheese

Cimbrian: éezel m Italian: scamorza f, provola f Japanese: スカモルツァ (sukamorutsa)

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Italian

Alternative forms

• scamozza (uncommon)

Etymology

Variant of scamozza, deverbal from scamozzare[1] or from cappa mozza (“cut head”).[2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skaˈmɔr.t͡sa/[3]
• Rhymes: -ɔrtsa
• Hyphenation: sca‧mòr‧za

Noun

scamorza f (plural scamorze)

1. scamorza (southern Italian unfermented cheese)

   Synonym: (regional) provola

2. (figurative, regional) incompetent person, fool

References

1. scamorza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
2. “SCAMORZA di vacca e di bufala”, in Regione Campania‎, (please provide a date or year), archived from the original on 2015-07-16
3. scamorza in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

• scamorza on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it