Noun: zizza
Gender: f
Hyphenation: zìz‧za
| Singular f | zizza |
| Plural f | zizze |
Sample Sentences
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E ancora quivi nella sua figura / Pallida, si vedieno i due serpenti / Alle sue zizze dar crudel morsura. (And there, on her pale figure, one could see the two snakes cruelly biting her breasts.) [1342 ~ 1343, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Capitolo X”, in Amorosa visione:]
Nouns inflected like zizza
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Probably of Germanic (Lombardic) origin, from Proto-Germanic *titt- (“teat; nipple; breast”), from Proto-Indo-European *tata- (“father; parent; nipple”), similar to German Zitze. See: German Nouns '
Zitze'.
Verbs referencing "zizza"
English Nouns
teat, German Nouns
Titte.
Translations