cumannari li festi

Sicilian

Etymology

Literally, “to command over the feastdays”.

Verb

cumannari li festi

  1. to lord over, swagger
    • 1881, Giovanni Verga, “Capitolo I”, in I Malavoglia (overall work in Italian):
      Prima veniva lui, il dito grosso, che comandava le feste e le quarant’ore; […]
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References
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “cumannari”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1096
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cumannari”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 371
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