chiummu

== Sicilian == === Alternative forms === ghiummu chiumbu (Calabria) === Etymology === Inherited from Latin plumbum. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈcum.mu/, [ˈcu.mːʊ] IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃu.mːʊ] (palatalized) Rhymes: -ummʊ Hyphenation: chiùm‧mu === Noun === chiummu m (plural chiummi) (uncountable) lead (metal) caminari cu li pedi di chiummu ― to proceed with caution (literally, “to walk with lead feet”) (construction, countable) plumb bob fari li cosi cu lu chiummu e lu cumpassu ― to do things with the utmost care (literally, “to do things with the plumb bob and compass”) (hunting, uncountable) birdshots Synonym: paparina ==== Derived terms ==== a chiummu acchiummari (“to plumb, to use a plumb bob as an aligning tool”, verb) botta di chiummu ==== Descendants ==== → Maltese: ċomb === References === AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 408: “come il piombo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it Traina, Antonino (1868), “chiummu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 833 Pasqualino (c. 1790), “chiummu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 311