Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a glossary of words related to the Mafia, primarily the Sicilian Mafia and Italian American Mafia. administration: the top-level "management" of an organized crime family -- the boss, underboss and consigliere. [1] associate: one who works with mobsters, but has not been asked to take the vow of Omertà; an almost confirmed, or made guy ...
Siculish is the macaronic "Sicilianization" of English language words and phrases by immigrants from Sicily to the United States in the early 20th century. The term Siculish is, however, rather recent, being first recorded in 2005.
Sicilian (Sicilian: sicilianu, Sicilian: [sɪʃɪˈljaːnʊ]; [3] Italian: siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. [4] It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian italiano meridionale estremo ).
The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and languages of Italy, such as the Tuscan dialect, which had a very strong influence in modern standard Italian, and is widely known to be based on Florentine language. [1]
The Siculish dialect is the macaronic "Sicilianization" of English language words and phrases by immigrants from Sicily to the United States in the early 20th century. Forms of Siculish are also to be found in other Sicilian immigrant communities of English-speaking countries, namely Canada and Australia.
The "Vocabolario siciliano" is a five-volume lexicographic work on the Sicilian language by Giorgio Piccitto, Salvatore Tropea, and Salvatore Carmelo Trovato.It was realised with assistance from the Sicilian Autonomous Region and the National Research Council (Italy).
Capo dei capi (Italian: [ˈkaːpo dei ˈkaːpi]; "boss of [the] bosses"), capo di tutti i capi (Italian: [ˈkaːpo di ˈtutti i ˈkaːpi]; "boss of all [the] bosses") or Godfather (Italian: padrino) are terms used mainly by the media, public, fiction writers and law enforcement community to indicate a supremely powerful crime boss in the Sicilian or American Mafia who holds great influence ...
Pantesco is the Sicilian dialect of the island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia.It is notable among Romance varieties for an unusually high degree of influence from Arabic, originating in an Arabic dialect similar to Maltese, which was spoken on the island until around the 19th century.