Noun: ciotto
Gender: m
Hyphenation: ciòt‧to
| Singular m | ciotto |
| Plural m | ciotti |
Sample Sentences
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Andianne; ma io giuro a Dio che mai Calandrino non me ne farà più niuna: e se io gli fossi presso come stato sono tutta mattina, io gli darei tale di questo ciotto nelle calcagna, che egli si ricorderebbe forse un mese di questa beffa! (Let's go; but I swear to God that Calandrino will never fool me again like this: and if I were near him like I've been all morning, I would throw something like this pebble at his heels, so that he'd remember maybe for a month of this prank!) [c. 1300, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata ottava – Novella terza”, in Decameron:]
Nouns inflected like ciotto
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps of Germanic origin; cf. German Schutt (“rubble”). Alternatively from Latin cautēs (“rough pointed rock”), via a Gallo-Italic language (hence the palatalization of /ka-/) with a change in gender and notable reduction in size. Either way, cognate with Romagnol ẓòt. See: German Nouns '
Schutt', Latin Nouns '
cautēs'.
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