crapistu

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Sicilian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin capistrum. Cognate with Italian capestro.

Noun[edit]

crapistu m needs inflection

  1. halter (of animals)
    Synonyms: capizza, strincituri, tistali, capizzuni, suattu
    • a. 1368, De Cruyllis–Spatafora, “lu modu di piglari di infrinari e di adumari li cavalli”, in Libru di la Mascalchia […]‎[1], translation of De Medicina equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 10r:
      Prisu e misuli lu capistru in testa minissi ad unu locu ki si adusi ad adumari […]
      After taking and attaching the halter to its head, it shall be brought in a place suitable for taming.
  2. noose (around one's neck)
    Synonym: chiaccu di furca

References[edit]

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1236: “la cavezza” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “crapistu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 1009–1010
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “crapistu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 351
  • Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “crapistu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 214
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