buffa

Italian. See buffo and buffoon.

buffa (plural buffas)

1. (music) The comic actress in an opera.

• opera buffa

• “buffa”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

buffa

1. feminine singular of buffo

buffa

1. inflection of buffare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuf.fa/

buffa f

1. feminine singular of buffu

buffa f (plural buffi)

1. female equivalent of buffu: female clown

From Latin būfō (“toad”).

buffa f (plural buffi)

1. toad (Bufo bufo)
2. (derogatory) fat woman

• buffa quatrana
• fari buffa

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 455: “il rospo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Traina, Antonino (1868) “buffa”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 574
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “buffa”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 214
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “buffa”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 120