gozzo

Italian

Etymology

From (gar)gozza[1], or gargozzo, itself from a root garg-[2] or from Vulgar Latin *gurgutia or *gargutium[3]; another etymology proposed is *guttium, variant of Latin guttur, confused with guttus[4]; alternatively, possibly from a derivative Vulgar Latin *gusia (compare French gosier, Friulan gose, Romanian guşă), from Late Latin geusiae, from Gaulish geusiae (compare Welsh gewai (“glutton”)).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡot.t͡so/
  • Rhymes: -ottso

Noun

gozzo m (plural gozzi)

  1. crop (of a bird)
  2. (anatomy) throat
  3. (medicine) goitre, goiter
  4. (nautical) fishing boat (with oars and sometimes a small sail)

References
  1. gózzo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  2. gozzo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  3. Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “gozzo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
  4. http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/
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