uccello

See also: uccellò

Italian
uccelli

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /utˈt͡ʃɛl.lo/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛllo
  • Hyphenation: uc‧cèl‧lo

Etymology 1

From Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis. Doublet of augello, which was borrowed from Occitan. Compare Neapolitan auciello, Ligurian öxéllo.

Noun

uccello m (plural uccelli)

  1. bird
    Synonyms: volatile, pennuto, augello (archaic)
  2. (slang, vulgar) willy (British), peter (US), dick; (the penis)
Derived terms
  • uccellaccio m (“bird of prey; bird of ill omen; dupe”)
  • uccellagione f (“hunting or shooting birds; The season for doing this; the birds killed”)
  • uccellaia f (“a large number of birds;a place where hawking takes place; confused chatter; affair (of the heart); deception; mockery”)
  • uccellaio m (“bird breeder or seller”)
  • uccellamento m, uccellatura f (“bird-catching; mockery; prank”)
  • uccellame m (“bag of gamebirds (caught by a hunter)”)
  • uccellanda f (“fowling (bird-catching) site”)
  • uccellare (“to catch birds or fowl; to fool or trick”)
  • uccellatoio m (“place for bird-catching”)
  • uccellatore m (“bird-catcher”)
  • uccelletto m (“small bird”)
  • uccellino m (“little or young bird”)
  • uccello mosca f (“hummingbird”)
  • uccello rapace m (“bird of prey”)
  • uccellone m (“big bird”)

Verb

uccello

  1. first-person singular present indicative of uccellare

Further reading
  • uccello on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • uccello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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