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= “puzzo,” from *olidiu-; leandro, for oleandro; ragano (in 
the Montagna pistoiese), for uragano; regamo, from dptyavov; 
leto, letare (at Lucca, = a sudicio di stereo”), from oletu- 1 ; 
probbio (G. Villani), brobbrio, etc. (in the old writers passim), 
for Latin opprobriu-; scuro, for oscnro; cagione, from occa¬ 
sions-; bacio, from *opaci(v)u- 2 ; micidiale, from *homicidi- 
ale-; vunque (13th and 14th centuries), for ovunque; Noferi, 
for Onofrio 3 ; Loferno (Boccaccio), for Oloferne; puppula, 
bubbula, from a diminutive of upupa; suzzacchera, “sorta 
d’acetosa”, for ossizzacchera, from oxysaccharu-, from 6£v and 
o-aKxapov. Apheresis of an arbitrary kind occurred in the 
following: tavia (peasant and mountain word), for tuttavia; 
mentre, for domentre (obsolete), from duminteri(m), through 
*dementre-; in the numerous derivatives from /3o/x/?v£, -vkos, 
the silkwork,—bigherino (a kind of lace), bigattiera (“edi- 
fizio o luogo dove si allevano bachi da seta”), bighellone (“a 
loafer”), bigio, etc. 4 ; in names like Beppe, from Giuseppe, Nen- 
cia, Tancia, Beca, from Domenica, Menico, from Domenico, 
Maso, from Tommaso, Fazio, from Bonifazio, Mizio, from Do¬ 
rn izio, Nanni, Vanni, from Giovanni, etc.; friscello (“spol- 
vero”), from furfuricellu- 5 ; bellico (the usual modem word), 
from umbellicu-. 6 
71. Syncope. —This contraction is likely to occur between 
a mute and an B: sprone, from Old German sporon, passing 
through sporone, sperone, sprone; friscello, from (fur)furi- 
cellu- 1 ; bricco, = “asino” and “becco”, from Latin bur(r)icu-; 
pretto, for puretto, and priccio (at Siena, -cf. “villan priccio”), 
from puriccio; frana, from voragine- 2 ; cruna, if from corona 3 ; 
§70. Note 1. See Caix, Studi, No. 377. 
2. For P> B, cf. bottega, bubbula; for the disappearance of the V, 
cf. natio (nativu-), ratio (errativu-), etc.; there is a dialect form 
ovich. SeO AG II 2 seq. • 
3. Noferi is used in the following expressions: “far il Noferi” = 
“fare il nesci”, “essere, restare come ser Noferi,” = “sul lastrico”. 
4. For bigio, meaning a color, cf. vermiglio from verme-. On these 
words, cf. Caix, Studi, Nos. 11, 72, 201, Flechia AG II 39, Parodi, Rom. 
XXVII 223, Nigra AG XIV 280. 
5. See Caix, Studi, No. 326. 
6. Ombrico, from lombrico, is a case of apheresis of the consonant L, 
by confusion with the definite article. 
§71. Note 1. See §70, note 5. 
2. Cf. M.-L., Ital. Gram., §193. 
3. M.-L., Ital. Gram., §§11 and 143. 
