tazza Italian · revision 39121

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1400, Franco Sacchetti|origins=ar طَاس}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈtat.t͡sa/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tazza''' ''f'' (plural tazze)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|ar|طَاس|tr=ṭās|t=cup, bowl]], which DELI, Devoto–Oli and Treccani quote with the ending ⟨-a⟩.^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(Wiktionary) DELI thinks the word reached the whole of western Europe probably from the ports of the Levant, such as Tyre;^(DELI 1999) GRADIT gives the route through [[tr|tas]].^(GRADIT 2003) DEI traces the Arabic word further to a Persian word for a basin.^(DEI|3735)

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+ The same word is [[fr|tasse]] (recorded about 1150), [[pro|tassa]], [[es|taza]] and [[pt|taça]], and it also reached Romanian and the Slavic languages.^(DEI|3735)^(Körting 1907)^(Nocentini 2010) The Sicilian and Calabrian dialects have [[scn|tassa]] with a single /s/.^(DEI|3735)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Latin documents of the papal Curia have ''tassia'' from 1318, and Bologna has ''tassea'' and ''tassia'' in 1334.^(DELI 1999) The Italian word is first recorded in Franco Sacchetti, before 1400, for a small round, low vessel, usually with handles.^(DELI 1999) Nocentini dates it to 1333–1337, and Zingarelli and DIFIT to before 1342.^(Nocentini 2010)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(DIFIT) One of Sacchetti's tales has a silver ''tazza'' worth thirty florins (''una tazza d'argento di valuta di trenta fiorini'').^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 16th century a ''tazza'' could be a precious worked cup or, under Spanish influence, a crystal drinking vessel, and Vasari uses the word for the marble or stone basin that receives the water of a fountain.^(DEI|3735)^(DELI 1999) The literary sense “drinking cup, goblet” is now old.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020) The quantity a cup holds is recorded from 1891 (Petrocchi), and the bowl of a flush toilet from 1942, when Migliorini noted it as a Roman use.^(DELI 1999) In engineering the word names each bucket on the chain of a dredger or a noria (1970, Zingarelli).^(DELI 1999)

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+ The diminutive ''tazzino'' appears in 1612 (Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger) and ''tazzina'', now chiefly a coffee cup, in 1879 (Tommaseo–Bellini).^(DELI 1999) English took ''tazza'' for an ornamental cup on a foot in the 1820s.^(DIFIT)^(DEI|3735) The Romansh word [[m|rm|tazza]] and Cimbrian ''tatza'' are borrowed from Italian, while [[de|Tasse]] is usually traced to French.^(Wiktionary)^(DIFIT)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1318 – Medieval Latin ''tassia'' appears in documents of the Curia.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1334 – ''Tassea'' and ''tassia'' are recorded at Bologna.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1400 – Franco Sacchetti uses ''tazza''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1550 – Vasari uses it for a fountain basin.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1612 – The diminutive ''tazzino'' is first recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1823 – English ''tazza'' is first recorded.^(DIFIT)

+ * 1879 – ''Tazzina'' appears in Tommaseo–Bellini.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1942 – The sense “toilet bowl” is recorded as Roman.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|cup]] or mug: a small round vessel, usually with a handle, for drinking or serving liquids: ''una tazza da tè''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A cupful: ''Per la torta servono due tazze di zucchero.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

+ # ''(colloquial)'' The [[m|en|bowl]] of a flush toilet.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Treccani 2011)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(engineering)'' Each of the buckets on the chain of a dredger or a [[m|en|noria]].^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

+ # ''(architecture)'' A large basin of a fountain, or of the hot bath in Roman baths.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(literary, dated)'' A drinking cup, [[m|en|goblet]].^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[tazzina]]

+ * [[tazzetta]]

+ * [[tazzone]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fr|tasse]]

+ * [[es|taza]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}