cafone
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cafone (plural cafones)
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain. Originally from southern Italy, compare Neapolitan cafone, Sicilian cafuni, possibly of Oscan origin.[1] Another theory traces it to the phrase c'a fune (literally “with a rope”), used to mock those from the countryside who would tie themselves to each other with rope to not get lost.[2] or Latin capio (“to capture”), the one who catches the sheep and goats with the loop.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cafone m (plural cafoni, feminine cafona)
- peasant
- (derogatory) boor
- Synonym: burino
- 2003, Antonio Tabucchi, chapter XXI, in Sostiene Pereira : una testimonianza [Pereira Declares], Rome: La biblioteca di Repubblica, published 1994, →ISBN, page 150:
- Alla censura sono dei cafoni, disse il direttore, degli analfabeti, il direttore della censura è un uomo intelligente, è mio amico, ma non può leggersi personalmente le bozze di tutti i giornali portoghesi.
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Noun[edit]
cafone f pl
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Further reading[edit]
- cafone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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