cacciaturi

Sicilian

Etymology

From cacciari (“to hunt”) +‎ -turi, compare Italian cacciatore.

Noun

cacciaturi m needs inflection

1. hunter
   • c. 1316–1337, Angelo di Capua, La Istoria di Eneas, translation of original by Virgil, L. 9, pag. 164.5:

     curria contra li lanzi comu la fera quandu esti turniyata da li cachaturi, la quali curri in killa parti duvi vidi li spissi lanzi […]

     it ran towards the spears like an animal when surrounded by hunters, which runs in the direction where it sees the most spears

2. (military) chasseur, a soldier form light infantry

Descendants

• → Arbëresh Albanian: kaçatúr

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 518: “il cacciatore” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Traina, Antonino (1868) “cacciaturi”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 606
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “cacciaturi”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 224
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “cacciaturi”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 125
• “cacciatore”, in TLIO – Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini