Carnilivari
Sicilian
Alternative forms
- Carnaluvari, Carnilivaru, Carnivali, Carruali, Carriali
- Carnelevara, Carnulivaru (Calabrian)
- Carniale (Salentino)
Etymology
Compare Italian Carnevale.
Noun
Carnilivari m (uncountable)
- Carnival (feast week preceding Lent)
- nannu di Carnilivari — (see entry)
- baruni di Carnilivari ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- cassateddi di Carnilivari ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Lu Carnivali mancia cu cu voi, e la Pasqua cu li toi.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- The nannu, impersonification of the Carnival.
- (humorous) someone dressed eccentrically, oddly (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
- fool, idiot
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:babbu
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 774: “Carnevale” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Traina, Antonino (1868), “Carnilivari, Cannilivari e Carnivali”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 719
- Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862), “Carnilivari”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 147
- Pasqualino (c. 1790), “Carnilivari”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 264