caciu

Sicilian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Italian cacio, from Latin cāseus. Doublet of casu, the native outcome in Calabria and Salento.

Noun

caciu m (plural caci)

  1. (chiefly Palermo, countable and uncountable) cheese
    Synonyms: tumazzu, furmaggiu, (outside of Sicily) casu

Derived terms

References
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “càciu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 607
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1217: “salare il formaggio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
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