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🧑‍🦱 A surname 🇮🇹 From Calabria
Calabrese

Calabrese

2 7.4
A person from Calabria in southern Italy or something relating to its culture
  • proper noun
  • /ˌkæl.əˈbriː.zi/
translation icon : calabrés
  • As a proud Calabrese, Maria often shares stories about her hometown in southern Italy.
  • Calabrese and Vitale
  • Calabrese said
  • Chris Calabrese

Examples

  • Calabrese, by contrast, is clearly older and more circumspect.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • His people had been Calabrese.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • My accent will be a regional Calabrese.

    Smokin' Aces (2006)

  • Calabrese and Vitale are getting uneasy.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • A mature man, Calabrese, and his stocky confederate, Vitale, step from the limo.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Speaking with her family in Calabrese, she felt a deep connection to her roots.

  • The festival featured traditional Calabrese music and delicious regional dishes.

Synonyms

Italian
vsCalabrese
171 1.0

A person from Italy or with family from Italy

is narrower in scope applying only to people or things from that region
Calabrian
vsCalabrese
6.0

A person from Calabria in southern Italy

is the same meaning but uses a different word form

Surface Forms

Calabrese main

Morphology

Calabrese = Calabria (transparent) = Calabria + ese

Formed from the place name 'Calabria' plus the demonym-forming suffix '-ese', so the relation 'from Calabria' is directly recoverable.

Etymology

Calabrese comes from the place name Calabria plus the ending -ese, a small ending that means 'from' or 'of', just like Chinese or Japanese. Calabria is the 'toe' of Italy's boot, so Calabrese means a person or thing 'from Calabria'.