prezzemolo

Italian

Alternative forms

  • petresemolo, petrosemelo, petrosemolo, petrosimolo, pretosemolo (archaic, dialectal)
  • petorsello, pidursello, pitorsello, pitursello (archaic, central Italian)
  • petrosello, petroselo, petrosillo, petrosilo, pitrosello (archaic, regional)
  • petroselino, petrosellino, petrosilino, petrosillino (archaic, literary)
  • petrosino (archaic, southern Italian)
  • prasomelo, prassemolo, prassomelo, premolo, prezemolo, prozemolo, pruzzemolo (archaic, dialectal)

Etymology

A syncope of earlier pretosemolo, with metathesis from petrosemolo, from a cross of Latin petroselīnum and sēmen (thus "stone seed") as in Sardinian perdusèmene.[1][2] The Latin word borrowed from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon), from πέτρα (pétra, “stone”) + σέλῑνον (sélīnon, “celery”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pretˈt͡se.mo.lo/
  • Rhymes: -emolo
  • Hyphenation: prez‧zé‧mo‧lo
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Noun

prezzemolo m (plural prezzemoli)

  1. parsley (plant and herb)
    Synonym: petrosello

References

  1. ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “prezzemolo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
  2. ^ http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/
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