rizza

rizza

See also: Rizza

Italian

Verb

rizza

  1. inflection of rizzare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Maltese

Etymology

Etymology tree
Sicilian rizzabor.
Maltese rizza

    Borrowed from Sicilian rizza.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈrɪt.t͡sa/
    • Audio (Gozo):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɪtt͡sa

    Noun

    rizza f (plural rizzi)

    1. sea urchin
      Synonym: qanfud il-baħar
    • rizzun (“violet sea urchin”)
    • rrizza (“to bristle, feel stiff”)

    Romansh

    Etymology

    Feminized from Latin ericius.

    Noun

    rizza f (plural rizzas)

    1. (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)

    Synonyms

    Sicilian

    Etymology 1

    Doublet of rizzu.

    Noun

    rizza f (plural rizzi)

    1. sea urchin
      Synonym: rizzu
    2. husk (of a chestnut)
      Synonym: rizzu
    Descendants
    • → Maltese: rizza
    • → Tunisian Arabic: ريتزي (rītzi, “sea urchin, Echinus”)[1]

    References

    1. ^ Guido Bellatti Ceccoli; Franco Pierno (2006), “Talassozoonimi e terminologia dell'attività ittica d'influenza italiana nel dialetto arabo tunisino”, in Romance Philology (in Tunisian Arabic), volume 59, number 2, →JSTOR, page 226

    Etymology 2

    From Latin rētia, from rēte (“net”). Cognate with Italian rezza.

    Noun

    rizza f (plural rizzi)

    1. fishing net

    Etymology 3

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Adjective

    rizza

    1. feminine singular of rizzu

    Further reading

    • Traina, Antonino (1868), “rizza”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3496
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