Noun: beccaio
Gender: m
Hyphenation: bec‧cà‧io
| Singular m | beccaio |
| Singular f | beccaia |
| Plural m | beccai |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like beccaio
fiduciario,
gregario,
semaio,
ostricaio,
lampadinaio,
bollettinaio,
ghirlandaio,
prelegatario,
beccaio,
stramilionario,
dirimpettaio,
borsaio,
donatario,
ordinatario,
pannonio,
perlaio,
pacifondaio,
lapidario,
alabastraio,
pennaio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From becco (“male goat, billy”) + -aio (“-er”). Cognate with English butcher, French boucher, Lombard becchee, Piedmontese bëcché, Venetan becaro, and Sicilian vucceri, among others. See: English Nouns '
butcher', French Nouns '
boucher'.
Translations