carciofo
Italian
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Un carciofo
Alternative forms
- carcioffo (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from Siculo-Arabic, from Arabic خُرْشُوف (ḵuršūf).[1][2] Doublet of articiocco, which is used in northern Italy. Compare Sicilian cacòcciula.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /karˈt͡ʃɔ.fo/
- Rhymes: -ɔfo
- Hyphenation: car‧ciò‧fo
Noun
carciofo m (plural carciofi)
- artichoke
Derived terms
- carciofaia
- carciofeto
- carciofino
- carciofo di Gerusalemme
- carciofo romanesco
Descendants
- → Middle French: carchoffle
- → Polish: karczoch
- → Spanish: alcachofa
References
- Elcock, W. D. (1960) The Romance Languages, page 282: "Borrowed directly from the Qairawān–Sicily region, without the article, the same Arabic word appears in Italian as carciofo; the Spanish form penetrated, however, into Provence, where it became archichaut, arquichaut, and thence into northern Italy as articiocco".
- Sicily, 2009, page 74