chiummu

Sicilian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin plumbum
Sicilian chiummu

    Inherited from Latin plumbum.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈcum.mu/, [ˈcu.mːʊ]
    • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃu.mːʊ] (palatalized)
    • Rhymes: -ummʊ
    • Hyphenation: chiùm‧mu

    Noun

    chiummu m (plural chiummi)

    1. (uncountable) lead (metal)
      caminari cu li pedi di chiummu ― to proceed with caution (literally, “to walk with lead feet”)
    2. (construction, countable) plumb bob
      fari li cosi cu lu chiummu e lu cumpassu ― to do things with the utmost care (literally, “to do things with the plumb bob and compass”)
    3. (hunting, uncountable) birdshots
      Synonym: paparina

    Derived terms

    • a chiummu
    • acchiummari (“to plumb, to use a plumb bob as an aligning tool”, verb)
    • botta di chiummu

    Descendants

    • → Maltese: ċomb

    References

    • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 408: “come il piombo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
    • Traina, Antonino (1868), “chiummu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 833
    • Pasqualino (c. 1790), “chiummu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 311
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