baccalà

Signification (Anglais)

1. (invariable, masculine) salt cod, stockfish
2. (figuratively, invariable, masculine) a foolish person

Concepts

morue

cabillaud

nibard

nichon

néné

stockfisch

andouille

morue séchée

haltère

Synonymes

merluzzo

muto

🔇

salame

sciocco

sempliciotto

babbeo

citrullo

fregnone

sprovveduto

stoccafisso

gocciolone

baccelletto

baluba

tontolone

Traductions

bacalao

bacallà

bacalhau

Kabeljau

stockfish

kabeljauw

morina

Dorsch

cod

Stockfisch

merluça

βακαλάος

μπακαλιάρος

salt cod

Coupé comme

bac‧ca‧là

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bak.kaˈla/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Dutch bakkeljauw, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Latin baculum (“stick, staff”), referring to the way cod were split and dried on wooden sticks.
If the element *bak- is a metathesis of *kab- (compare French cabillaud and German Kabeljau from Dutch kabeljauw), then the original form of the word could have been *cabalao, maybe meaning "large-headed fish" (cf. Ibero-Romance words, such as Spanish cabo, cabal, from Latin caput (“head”)).
Cognate with Sicilian baccalaru, Catalan bacallà, Portuguese bacalhau, Spanish bacalao.