Originally Posted By: Malandrino
I always thought it was something like ciccio - ciccione; Vito - Vitone.. sort of like a diminutive or belittling form.

Vitone literally means "big Vito", the opposite of a diminutive. The words in -ino are diminutive, those in -one are the opposite. For example, with the word "gatto" (cat):
gattino - little cat, kitten
gattone - big cat

But "ciccione" is a different thing: Ciccio is a diminutive of Francesco, but the word "ciccione" means also "fat one, fatty". Although there is also the word "grasso" for "fat".

That's an off-topic about Italian language though.

Last edited by Dwalin2011; 01/28/15 05:42 PM.
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