buffa

See also: Buffa

English

Etymology

Italian. See buffo and buffoon.

Noun

buffa (plural buffas)

  1. (music) The comic actress in an opera.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for buffa in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Italian

Adjective

buffa

  1. feminine singular of buffo

Verb

buffa

  1. inflection of buffare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Maltese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbuf.fa/

Adjective

buffa f

  1. feminine singular of buffu

Noun

buffa f (plural buffi)

  1. female equivalent of buffu: female clown

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin būfō (“toad”).

Noun

buffa f (plural buffi)

  1. toad (Bufo bufo)
  2. (derogatory) fat woman

Derived terms
  • buffa quatrana
  • fari buffa

References
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 455: “il rospo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Traina, Antonino (1868), “buffa”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 574
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790), “buffa”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 214
  • Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862), “buffa”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 120
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