ciliegia – Italian adjective declension

Adjective: ciliegia

Hyphenation: ci‧liè‧gia

Singular m.	ciliegia
Singular f.	ciliegia

Sample Sentences

Adjectives inflected like ciliegia

antisabotaggio, di classe mondiale, usa e getta, antipattinaggio, sangue, difronte, sciupo, alla lettera, deficente, single, anticontaminazione, biondo rame, come sta, a pioggia, salvafreschezza, fuoricampo, fuoricasta, fuoriborsa, fuoribordo, fuoribusta, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. From the variant ciriegia, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.
2. Alternatively from ciliegio, ciriegio (Tuscan), from Late Latin ceresus, from Latin cerasus.
3. See also cerasa.
4. In modern, Tuscan-based Italian, this word underwent hypercorrection twice:
5. * Tuscan hypercorrects intervocalic /r/ to intervocalic /l/ by mistakenly assuming that ⟨cer-⟩ /t͡ʃer/ is a Lombard pronunciation, compare garea, galea → galera;
6. * and ⟨-sa⟩ /za/ → ⟨-gia⟩ /d͡ʒa/, assuming again that ⟨-sa⟩ /za/ is a Lombard pronunciation.

Verbs referencing "ciliegia"

Spanish Adjectives cereza.

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