Feminine

acciuga

Meaning

  1. (feminine) anchovy (any of the fish in the family Engraulidae family), particularly European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus)
  2. (feminine, figuratively) a slim or thin person

Concepts

Synonyms

Hyphenated as
ac‧ciù‧ga
Pronounced as (IPA)
/atˈt͡ʃu.ɡa/
Etymology

Borrowed from Ligurian anciôa, from Vulgar Latin *apiuva, from Latin aphyē, from Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē).

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