bisognu

== Sicilian == === Etymology === Inherited from Vulgar Latin *bisonium. === Noun === bisognu m (plural bisogni) need, necessity aviri bisognu di ― to need (often in the plural) excrements fari li so bisogni ― to defecate ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Maltese: bżonn === References === Traina, Antonino (1868), “bisognu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 540 Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862), “bisògnu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 114 Pasqualino (c. 1790), “bisognu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 202