baccalà
Italian (Fiorentino)
noun
Definitions
- salt cod, stockfish
- (figuratively) a foolish person
Etymology
Derived from Dutch, Flemish bakaliaw derived from Latin baculum (staff, stick), caput (head, etc, source).
Origin
Latin
caput
Gloss
head, etc, source
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
頭
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bacalao English
- baculite English
- capite English
- caput English
- caput Mundi English
- *accapāre Latin
- *baclitta Latin
- *baclu(m) Latin
- *bottia Latin
- *capare Latin
- *capitina Latin
- *capum Latin
- *capāre Latin
- *cuppāre Latin
- *excapitāre Latin
- *excapitō Latin
- Reconstruction:Latin/capum Latin
- baccalaureus Latin
- baculum Latin
- capa Latin
- capitalis Latin
- capitaneus Latin
- capitatio Latin
- capitatus Latin
- capitellum Latin
- capitergium Latin
- capitia Latin
- capitilavium Latin
- capitium Latin
- capito Latin
- capitulum Latin
- capitānea Latin
- capitāneus Latin
- capitāre Latin
- cappa Latin
- caput Latin
- occiput Latin
- praecipito Latin
- sinciput Latin
- ēricius Latin
- Kap German
- bacolo Italian
- capa Italian
- caporale Italian
- capriccio Italian
- baculum Dutch, Flemish
- bakaliaw Dutch, Flemish
- bakkeljauw Dutch, Flemish
- kabeljauw Dutch, Flemish
- cabillaud French
- capote French
- chef French
- acabar Spanish, Castilian
- bacalao Spanish, Castilian
- báculo Spanish, Castilian
- capota Spanish, Castilian
- *bak- Proto-Indo-European
- *bakklom Proto-Indo-European
- *kauput- Proto-Indo-European
- kapp Norwegian Bokmål
- sjef Norwegian Bokmål
- abacalhoado Portuguese
- bacalhau Portuguese
- bacalhoeiro Portuguese
- báculo Portuguese
- caput Portuguese
- kapp Norwegian Nynorsk
- sjef Norwegian Nynorsk
- cabage, caboche Middle English
- bachall Irish
- bacheler Old French
- bas Old French
- caboce Old French
- chanfrain Old French
- chief Old French
- bakalar Serbo-Croatian
- бакалар Serbo-Croatian
- bacallà Catalan, Valencian
- bacallau Galician
- cabelliau Middle Dutch
- bachall Old Irish
- kabeljou Afrikaans
- bachall Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- Cabillaud Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- bakeljauw Old Dutch
- cabillau Old Dutch
- 馬介休 Chinese
- acabar Occitan
- cabussar Occitan
- cap Occitan
- *kaput Proto-Italic
- acabar Asturian
- capa Sicilian
- bagolina Venetian
- capitolie xno
- bakailao Basque
- bàcco Ligurian
- bakayau Shona
- capa Tarantino