catusu

== Sicilian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Arabic قَادُوس (qādūs). === Noun === catusu m (plural catusi) pipe, conduit, duct catusu mastru ― the main pipe, (figuratively) rectum catusu di chiummu ― lead pipe (figurative) Anything that is oblong and malformed. ==== Descendants ==== → Maltese: katusa === References === Traina, Antonino (1868), “catusu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 774 Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862), “catusu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 159 Pasqualino (c. 1790), “catusu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino‎[1] (in Italian), volume 286