orzaiolo

Italian

Alternative forms

• orzaiuolo (literary)
• orzarolo (dialectal)

Etymology

From Late Latin hordeolus, diminutive of Latin hordeum (“barley”). It may have possibly come from another root *hordeariolum < hordeārium, or was influenced phonetically by a hypothetical *orzaio in Italian.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /or.d͡zaˈjɔ.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɔlo
• Hyphenation: or‧za‧iò‧lo

Noun

orzaiolo m (plural orzaioli)

1. stye (in the eye)

References

1. Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “orzaiuolo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati