polezzare

== Neapolitan == === Alternative forms === polizzare, pulezzare, pulizzare; polezzà, polizzà, pulezzà, pulizzà (alt. spellings) === Etymology === Inherited from Vulgar Latin *politiāre, derived from Latin polīre. Compare Sicilian pulizziari. === Pronunciation === (Naples) IPA(key): [pulədˈd͡za] === Verb === polezzare to polish to clean to sweep to tidy up === References === AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1551: “la spazzola; pulire (i vestiti)” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it Rocco, Emmanuele (1882), “polezzare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano‎[1]