stotare

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

stutare, stotà, stutà (alt. spellings)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *extūtāre, from Latin tūtārī (“avert, ward off”).

Pronunciation

(Naples) IPA^(key): [stuˈta]

Verb

stotare

to extinguish, put out, turn off (a light)

References

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 921: “spegnere la fiamma” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “stotare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

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