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See also: uccellò
Italian
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis. Doublet of augello, which was borrowed from Occitan. Compare Neapolitan auciello, Ligurian öxéllo.
Noun
[edit]uccello m (plural uccelli)
Derived terms
[edit]- uccellaccio m (“bird of prey; bird of ill omen; dupe”)
- uccellagione f (“hunting or shooting birds; The season for doing this; the birds killed”)
- uccellaia f (“a large number of birds;a place where hawking takes place; confused chatter; affair (of the heart); deception; mockery”)
- uccellaio m (“bird breeder or seller”)
- uccellamento m, uccellatura f (“bird-catching; mockery; prank”)
- uccellame m (“bag of gamebirds (caught by a hunter)”)
- uccellanda f (“fowling (bird-catching) site”)
- uccellare (“to catch birds or fowl; to fool or trick”)
- uccellatoio m (“place for bird-catching”)
- uccellatore m (“bird-catcher”)
- uccelletto m (“small bird”)
- uccellino m (“little or young bird”)
- uccello mosca f (“hummingbird”)
- uccello rapace m (“bird of prey”)
- uccellone m (“big bird”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]uccello
Further reading
[edit]uccello on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
- uccello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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