scamorza
English
Etymology
Italian scamorza
Noun
scamorza (uncountable)
- An unfermented cow's-milk cheese from southern Italy.
Translations
southern Italian unfermented cheese
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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)
- scamorza (southern Italian unfermented cheese)
- Synonym: (regional) provola
- (figurative, regional) incompetent person, fool
References
- scamorza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- “SCAMORZA di vacca e di bufala”, in Regione Campania, (please provide a date or year), archived from the original on 2015-07-16
- scamorza in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
scamorza on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it