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Other / Sicilian dialect | | Italian term or phrase: caruso | | This film is all in Sicilian dialect, does anyone know what "caruso" means ? |
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| | caruso / boy miner / boy mine worker | Explanation:
ca|rù|so
s.m.
RE sicil., ragazzo | in Sicilia, garzone con salario fisso [quadro 12]
http://www.demauroparavia.it/19626
Nell’ambito dell'organizzazione mineraria è emblematica la figura del "caruso". Il “caruso” è un bambino, spesso in età scolare, che per pochi soldi (chiamato in gergo soccorso morto) viene ceduto dai propri familiari “in affitto” ai picconieri della miniera; i familiari venivano pagati in anticipo per cui si creava un debito che il ragazzo era obbligato ad onorare spesso lavorando come uno schiavo privato di ogni diritto.
http://www.irsap-agrigentum.it/miniera4.htm
Signor Impellitteri good speaker in English: in Sicilian, was perfect. He understood that his fellow citizens were celebrating themselves in him.
He spoke of his papà and mamà; he said: “I am the son of a poor shoemaker who left Isnello without five pennies dint' a' sacca (in his pocket), with six sons, and then came a daughter: in Sicily all males, and in America a girl. And so, thanks to democracy, it is possible for all ***these carusi (young men)*** who are here today to become, some day, the Mayor of Rome or the leader of Italy or the Mayor of New York, like me.
http://www.italoamericano.com/italian%20connection/august%20...
What to say? You are a splendid family.
Giuseppe with his humility typical of the really genial people, his vitality of the authentic worker, his children: Calogero, fifteen-year-old but with the maturity of the adults and Alessandro with the vivacity proper of the ***'carusi'*** of center-Sicily.
http://giucalem.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_giucalem_archive.htm...
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Note added at 29 mins (2006-12-29 21:23:31 GMT)
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Word origins
carusu - boy (from kouros; but Latin carus - dear, Sanskrit caruh - amiable)
http://www.netipedia.com/index.php/Sicilian_language
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Note added at 38 mins (2006-12-29 21:32:37 GMT)
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Nel 1903 viene avviata un’inchiesta sui ***carusi siciliani (ragazzi di età inferiore ai 9 anni, occupati nelle miniere)*** i cui risultati sono raccapriccianti per i danni e le deformazioni permanenti provocati sul fisico di questi ragazzi a causa del continui e gravi carichi sopportati.
http://www.formilano.it/archivio/3%20I%20luoghi%20di%20lavor...
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Note added at 19 hrs (2006-12-30 16:21:21 GMT)
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Forget the fanciful if not absurd etymology of "netipedia". Here is another dictionary entry :
--- DISC 2002 Dizionario Italiano Sabatini Coletti ---
caruso [ca-rù-s\o] sostantivo m. dial.
In Sicilia, garzone che lavora in campagna o nelle miniere di zolfo
• voce merid. “rapato”; forse dal lat. cariosum “cariato” o forse connesso con gr. kéirein “tagliare” • a. 1910 |
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| caruso / boy miner / boy mine worker
Explanation:
ca|rù|so
s.m.
RE sicil., ragazzo | in Sicilia, garzone con salario fisso [quadro 12]
http://www.demauroparavia.it/19626
Nell’ambito dell'organizzazione mineraria è emblematica la figura del "caruso". Il “caruso” è un bambino, spesso in età scolare, che per pochi soldi (chiamato in gergo soccorso morto) viene ceduto dai propri familiari “in affitto” ai picconieri della miniera; i familiari venivano pagati in anticipo per cui si creava un debito che il ragazzo era obbligato ad onorare spesso lavorando come uno schiavo privato di ogni diritto.
http://www.irsap-agrigentum.it/miniera4.htm
Signor Impellitteri good speaker in English: in Sicilian, was perfect. He understood that his fellow citizens were celebrating themselves in him.
He spoke of his papà and mamà; he said: “I am the son of a poor shoemaker who left Isnello without five pennies dint' a' sacca (in his pocket), with six sons, and then came a daughter: in Sicily all males, and in America a girl. And so, thanks to democracy, it is possible for all ***these carusi (young men)*** who are here today to become, some day, the Mayor of Rome or the leader of Italy or the Mayor of New York, like me.
http://www.italoamericano.com/italian%20connection/august%20...
What to say? You are a splendid family.
Giuseppe with his humility typical of the really genial people, his vitality of the authentic worker, his children: Calogero, fifteen-year-old but with the maturity of the adults and Alessandro with the vivacity proper of the ***'carusi'*** of center-Sicily.
http://giucalem.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_giucalem_archive.htm...
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Note added at 29 mins (2006-12-29 21:23:31 GMT)
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Word origins
carusu - boy (from kouros; but Latin carus - dear, Sanskrit caruh - amiable)
http://www.netipedia.com/index.php/Sicilian_language
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Note added at 38 mins (2006-12-29 21:32:37 GMT)
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Nel 1903 viene avviata un’inchiesta sui ***carusi siciliani (ragazzi di età inferiore ai 9 anni, occupati nelle miniere)*** i cui risultati sono raccapriccianti per i danni e le deformazioni permanenti provocati sul fisico di questi ragazzi a causa del continui e gravi carichi sopportati.
http://www.formilano.it/archivio/3%20I%20luoghi%20di%20lavor...
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Note added at 19 hrs (2006-12-30 16:21:21 GMT)
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Forget the fanciful if not absurd etymology of "netipedia". Here is another dictionary entry :
--- DISC 2002 Dizionario Italiano Sabatini Coletti ---
caruso [ca-rù-s\o] sostantivo m. dial.
In Sicilia, garzone che lavora in campagna o nelle miniere di zolfo
• voce merid. “rapato”; forse dal lat. cariosum “cariato” o forse connesso con gr. kéirein “tagliare” • a. 1910
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