caciu

Sicilian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Italian cacio, from Latin cāseus. Doublet of casu, the native outcome in Calabria and Salento.

Noun

caciu m (plural caci)

1. (chiefly Palermo, countable and uncountable) cheese

   Synonyms: tumazzu, furmaggiu, (outside of Sicily) casu

Derived terms

• cascavaḍḍu
• caciu nta li maccarruna

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “càciu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 607
• 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