• ghiummu
• chiumbu(Calabria)

Inherited fromLatinplumbum(“lead”). CompareItalianpiombo andNeapolitanchiummo.

chiummu m (pluralchiummi)

1. (uncountable)lead (metal)

   caminari cu lipedi dichiummu ―to proceed with caution (literally, “to walk withlead feet”)

2. (construction, countable)plumb bob

   fari licosi cu luchiummu e lucumpassu ―to do things with the utmost care (literally, “to do things with theplumb bob and compass”)

3. (hunting, uncountable)birdshots

   Synonym:paparina

• a chiummu
• acchiummari(“to plumb, to use a plumb bob as an aligning tool”,verb)
• botta di chiummu

• → Maltese:ċomb

• AIS:Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] –map 408: “come il piombo” – onnavigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Traina, Antonino (1868), “chiummu”, inNuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published2020,page833
• Pasqualino (c.1790), “chiummu”, inVocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1,page311

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