orzaiolo

Italian

Alternative forms
  • orzaiuolo (literary)
  • orzarolo (dialectal)

Etymology

From Late Latin hordeolus, diminutive of Latin hordeum (“barley”). It may have possibly come from another root *hordeariolum < hordeārium, or was influenced phonetically by a hypothetical *orzaio in Italian.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /or.d͡zaˈjɔ.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlo
  • Hyphenation: or‧za‧iò‧lo

Noun

orzaiolo m (plural orzaioli)

  1. stye (in the eye)

References
  1. Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “orzaiuolo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
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