caciocavallo

caciocavallo

See also: Caciocavallo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caciocavallo, from cacio (“cheese”) +‎ a cavallo (“on horseback”), from Sicilian casucavaḍḍu, from the custom of draping two cheeses over a pole to dry. Doublet of kashkaval.

Noun

caciocavallo (usually uncountable, plural caciocavallos)

1. An Italian cheese, similar to provolone, originally from Sicily and the South.

Related terms

• kashkaval

 

Translations

Italian cheese type — See also translations at kashkaval

Albanian: kaçkavall (sq) m Arabic: قَشْقَوَان‎ m (qašqawān) Armenian: կաչոկավալո (kačʿokavalo) Bulgarian: кашкава́л (bg) m (kaškavál), качокавало (kačokavalo) Finnish: caciocavallo French: caciocavallo (fr) m, kachkaval (fr) m German: Caciocavallo (de) m, Kaschkawal Greek: κασκαβάλι (el) n (kaskaváli) Hebrew: קשקבל‎ (he) Hungarian: kaskavál Italian: caciocavallo (it) m Japanese: カチョカヴァッロ (kachokavarro) Korean: 카치오카발로 (kachiokaballo) Latin: cascabellus m Macedonian: кашкавал m (kaškaval) Polish: kaszkawał m Romanian: cașcaval (ro) n Russian: качокава́лло (kačokavállo), кашкава́л (ru) m (kaškavál) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: качка̀ва̄љ m Latin: kačkàvālj (sh) m Sicilian: casucavaḍḍu m, cosacavaḍḍu m Turkish: kaşkaval (tr) Ukrainian: качіокава́ло (kačiokaválo) Veps: kačokavallo

Further reading

• caciocavallo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Etymology

From cacio (“cheese”) +‎ cavallo (“horse”), likely calqued from Neapolitan and Sicilian, spoken in the area native of the cheese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌka.t͡ʃo.kaˈval.lo/[1]
• Rhymes: -allo
• Hyphenation: ca‧cio‧ca‧vàl‧lo

Noun

caciocavallo m (plural caciocavalli or cacicavalli)

1. caciocavallo

References

1. caciocavallo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Further reading

• caciocavallo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it