Calaxibbetta

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• Calascibbetta, Scibbetta (Italianate spelling)
• Xibbetta (clipping)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَلْعَة (qalʕa) and a not-well-attested element, namely said to be شِبِثّ (šibiṯṯ, “anise”). Doublet of Calascibbetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌka.la.ʃʃɪbˈbɛt.ta/
• Hyphenation: Ca‧la‧scib‧bèt‧ta

Proper noun

Calaxibbetta m

1. Calascibetta (a town, in Sicily, Italy)

Usage notes

• The grapheme ⟨x⟩ is here employed for /ʃ/ as many instances of /ʃ/ in Old Sicilian do derive from a Latin x, as for example coscia, otherwise this symbol has however been used to adopt borrowings from foreign languages. The grapheme was also widely used in Ibero-Romance languages with the same scope.

Derived terms

• scibbitanu
• sciurbisa
• sciurbisi
• xibbitana
• xibbitanu

Related terms

• Buscema
• Cartabillotta
• Cartaggiruni
• Cartavuturu
• Nissa
• Sciurbi
• Xurbi

Descendants

• Sicilian: Calascibbetta
• Italian: Calascibetta

See also

• Castrujanni
• Girgenti
• Terranova
• Xacca
• Xirbi