carallo

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (masculine, vulgar) penis
2. (masculine, vulgar) damn

Intj

1. (slang, vulgar) shit!
2. (slang, vulgar) go to hell, piss off, fucking hell, fuck, damn it

Pronunciato come (IPA)

[kaˈɾaʎʊ]

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine greco antico: χάραξ

Affine portoghese: caralho

Affine spagnolo: carajo

Affine catalano: carall

Affine bretone: kalc'h

Affine gallese: cala

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese caralho, from Latin *characulum, a Latinized diminutive of Ancient Greek χάραξ (khárax, “stick”). This also provides a single, phonologically coherent source for the cognates: Portuguese caralho, Spanish carajo and Catalan carall. Attempts to attribute Italian same-meaning cazzo to the same etymon fail on phonological grounds, as the /r/ of carajo (or its absence in cazzo) remains unexplained, and no Latin phonological sequence develops as both /x/ in Spanish and /tts/ in Italian. Otherwise, perhaps related to Breton kalc'h, Welsh cala, from a derivative of Proto-Celtic *kalgā.