scaramuccia
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ska.raˈmut.t͡ʃa/
- Rhymes: -uttʃa
- Hyphenation: sca‧ra‧mùc‧cia
Etymology 1
From Old Italian schermugio (“skirmish”) (both with diminutive ending?). Alternatively both Italian forms might be derived from Old French escarmuche. Related to the verb schermire (“to protect, shield; to fence, swordfight”), stemming from Lombardic skirmen or Frankish *skirmijan (“to protect, defend”).
Cognate with Old High German skirmen, scirmen (“to shield, defend, protect”), skirm (“shade, protection”). More at skirmish, escarmouche.
Descendants
- →? Old French: escarmuche
- Middle French: escarmuche
- French: escarmouche
- → Middle English: skarmuch
- English: skirmish
- Middle French: escarmuche
- →⇒ Middle High German: scharmutzel, scharmützel (via Upper Italian scaramuzzo + -el)
- German: Scharmützel
- → Middle Low German: schermützel
- →⇒ Dutch: schermutseling (+ -ing)
- →⇒ Swedish: skärmytsling (+ -ing)
- → Portuguese: escaramuça
- → Spanish: escaramuza
Further reading
- scaramuccia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
scaramuccia
- inflection of scaramucciare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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