cafone
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]cafone (plural cafones)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Originally from southern Italy, compare Neapolitan cafone, Sicilian cafuni, possibly of Oscan origin.[1] Another theory traces it to the phrase c'a fune (literally “with a rope”), used to mock those from the countryside who would tie themselves to each other with rope to not get lost.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cafone m (plural cafoni, feminine cafona)
- peasant
- (derogatory) boor
- Synonym: burino
- 2003, Antonio Tabucchi, chapter XXI, in Sostiene Pereira : una testimonianza [Pereira Declares], Rome: La biblioteca di Repubblica, published 1994, →ISBN, page 150:
- Alla censura sono dei cafoni, disse il direttore, degli analfabeti, il direttore della censura è un uomo intelligente, è mio amico, ma non può leggersi personalmente le bozze di tutti i giornali portoghesi.
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Noun
[edit]cafone f pl
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- cafone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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