tumazzu
Sicilian
Etymology
From tuma (“fresh unsalted cheese”) + -azzu.
Noun
tumazzu m (plural tumazzi)
- (Sicily, countable and uncountable) cheese
- Synonyms: caciu, furmaggiu, (outside of Sicily) casu
- c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter II, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, introduction:
- L’Eroi s’addubba cu pani, e tumazzu; […]
- The hero had his fill of bread and cheese; […]
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868), “tumazzu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4388
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1217: “salare il formaggio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it