pagliaccio

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Alternative forms

pagliaccia, pagliazza (archaic, only sense 3)

Etymology

From paglia (“straw”) ‎ -accio. Originally in sense 3 exclusively, sense 1 developed as the traditional Italian character's outfit was made of the same fabric used to cover straw mattresses. Cognate with Piedmontese pajasso.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /paʎˈʎat.t͡ʃo/
Rhymes: -attʃo
Hyphenation: pa‧gliàc‧cio

Noun

pagliaccio m (plural pagliacci, feminine pagliaccia)

clown
Synonym: clown
- 1889, Edmondo De Amicis, “Febbraio”, in Cuore, page 139:
  Scrivi un bell’articolo sulla Gazzetta, – gli disse, – tu che sai scrivere: tu racconti i miracoli del piccolo pagliaccio e io faccio il suo ritratto; la Gazzetta la leggon tutti, e almeno per una volta accorrerà gente. […]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1892, Ruggero Leoncavallo (lyrics and music), “Vesti la Giubba”:
  Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto
  Laugh, clown, at thy broken love
(derogatory) fool, buffoon (unintentionally ridiculous person)
Synonym: buffone
(archaic) straw mattress, pallet
Synonyms: pagliericcio, paglione
(archaic) minced straw
Synonym: pagliccio

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Alemannic German: Pajass m
→ Arabic: بِلْيَاتْشُو m (bilyātšū)
→ Asturian: payasu m
→ Basque: pailazo
→ Catalan: pallasso m
→ Danish: bajads c
→ Dutch: paljas m
→ Esperanto: pajaco
→ Finnish: pajatso
→ French: paillasse m, paillassine f
→ Galician: pallaso m
→ German: Bajazzo m
→ Greek: παλιάτσος m (paliátsos)
→ Hungarian: pojáca
→ Interlingua: paliasso
→ Norwegian: bajas m
→ Occitan: palhassa m
→ Polish: pajac m anim
→ Portuguese: palhaço m
- Hunsrik: Paliass
→ Romanian: paiață f
→ Russian: пая́ц m anim (pajác)
→ Serbo-Croatian: па̀јац m, pàjac m
→ Sicilian: pagghiazzu m, pagliazzu m
→ Spanish: payaso m, payasa f
→ Swedish: pajas c, pajazzo c
→ Ottoman Turkish: پالیاچو (palyaço)
- → Turkish: palyaço, palyanço (misspelling)
→ Uzbek: palyaço
→ Vilamovian: pȧjacca m
→ Yiddish: פּאַיאַץ m (payats)

References

pagliaccio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
“pagliàccio”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 12 orad–pere, UTET, 1984, page 366f.

Anagrams

accapiglio, accapigliò