peglia

Forms

peglia f (plural peglie)^[1]

Etymology

It is inherited from Late Latin pilleus (“caul”), the membrane some babies are born in, a Late Latin sense of Latin pilleus (“felt cap”).^[2][3][4] Treccani and Wiktionary derive it from the Latin word directly.^[5][1] The same Latin word gave Occitan pelha (“rag”), which passed into French peille in the 15th century, and Swiss French has a related word for the husk of a walnut or chestnut.^[2]

The Latin word is recorded from Plautus on.^[6] Its origin is disputed: Wiktionary and the OLD compare Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos, “felt”), and Wiktionary also Proto-Slavic *pьlstь (“felt”) and Old High German filz, while de Vaan, following Driessen, separates it from the Greek word and calls it etymologically obscure.^[6][7][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

GRADIT dates the word to 1958, as the Arezzo name for the spiny husk of the chestnut.^[4][5] DEI records it as a farming word of Arezzo and Cortona.^[2]

Semantic evolution

The word has kept the one sense, and the dictionaries record it only as a Tuscan, Aretine word.^[3][5][1]

Timeline

• 1958 – GRADIT's date of first record.^[4]

Meanings

Noun

1. (regional, Arezzo) The spiny husk of the chestnut (castagna), the riccio.^[4][5][3][1]

Related words

• pileo
• Latin pilleus

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Battisti, Carlo; Alessio, Giovanni (1950–1957), Dizionario etimologico italiano, 5 vols., Firenze: Barbèra (reprint 1975), p. 2822
3. ^ a b c Battaglia, Salvatore; Bàrberi Squarotti, Giorgio (1961–2002), Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, 21 vols., Torino: UTET; digital ed. Accademia della Crusca
4. ^ a b c d De Mauro, Tullio (ed.) (2003), Grande dizionario italiano dell'uso, CD-ROM version 2.0, Torino: UTET
5. ^ a b c d Duro, Aldo (ed.) (1986–1994), Vocabolario della lingua italiana, Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana; online ed. treccani.it/vocabolario (2008 copy)
6. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
7. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press