ciliegia – Italian noun declension

Noun: ciliegia
Gender: f Hyphenation: ci‧liè‧gia

Singular f	ciliegia
Plural f	ciliegie; ciliege

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like ciliegia

guarentigia, cervogia, rotovaligia, rullovaligia, ciliegia, valigia, frogia, gaggia, bragia,

Etymology

1. From the variant ciriegia, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.
2. Alternatively from ciliegio, ciriegio (Tuscan), from Late Latin ceresus, from Latin cerasus.
3. See also cerasa.
4. In modern, Tuscan-based Italian, this word underwent hypercorrection twice:
5. * Tuscan hypercorrects intervocalic /r/ to intervocalic /l/ by mistakenly assuming that ⟨cer-⟩ /t͡ʃer/ is a Lombard pronunciation, compare garea, galea → galera;
6. * and ⟨-sa⟩ /za/ → ⟨-gia⟩ /d͡ʒa/, assuming again that ⟨-sa⟩ /za/ is a Lombard pronunciation. See: Latin Nouns 'cerasium', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κεράσιον', Latin Nouns 'cerasus'.

Verbs referencing "ciliegia"

Spanish Nouns cereza, Portuguese Nouns cereja.

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