Calabrian
From Italy's toe
Calabrian refers to anything from or relating to Calabria, the region at the toe of Italy's boot.
A Calabrian is a person from this region.
Calabrian peppers are small, moderately hot chilis used in Italian cooking, often dried or crushed: Calabrian chili flakes.
Calabrian dialect is a variety of Italian with Greek and other influences from the region's history.
Dried Italian hot pepper
- bergamotFragrant citrus for tea
- soppressataCoarse Italian dry-cured salami
- swordfishFish with blade-like bill
- chiliCapsicum pod or stew
spicy · piquant · fiery · hot · capsaicin · licorice · tartufo · pecorino
Lively Italian folk dance
- folkRegular common people
- traditionalFollowing long-held customs
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- artisanSkilled manual tradesperson
ceramic · weaving · procession · festival · patron saint · superstition · emigration · diaspora
Regional language variety
- NeapolitanOf a southern Italian city
- RomanceLatin-descended language group
- ByzantineOf Constantinople's civilization
- Norman1066 England conqueror
Greek · Albanian · vernacular · patois · idiomatic · colloquial · linguistic · phonetic
peperoncino
Dried Italian hot pepper
- bergamotFragrant citrus for tea
- soppressataCoarse Italian dry-cured salami
- swordfishFish with blade-like bill
chili · spicy · piquant · fiery · hot · capsaicin · licorice · tartufo · pecorino · capocollo
tarantella
Lively Italian folk dance
- folkRegular common people
- traditionalFollowing long-held customs
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
artisan · ceramic · weaving · procession · festival · patron saint · superstition · emigration · diaspora · village
dialect
Regional language variety
- NeapolitanOf a southern Italian city
- RomanceLatin-descended language group
- ByzantineOf Constantinople's civilization
Norman · Greek · Albanian · vernacular · patois · idiomatic · colloquial · linguistic · phonetic · lexicon
mountainous
Having many peaks
peaks · rocky · steep · wild · scenic · remote · coastal · terraced · Mediterranean · hillside
Ionian Sea
Mediterranean between Greece, Italy
- CharybdisMythological sea vortex
Byzantine
Of Constantinople's civilization
colonial · archaeological · medieval · Bourbon · feudal · classical · antiquity · Hellenic
- chili peppersjalapeno, chili pepper, habanero, serrano, cayenne
- CenozoicPaleocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Holocene
- Mediterranean languagesFrench, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Romanian
- Italian dialectsVenetian, Lombard, Sicilian, Umbrian, Florentine
- Ice Ageice age, mammoths, saber-tooth cat, mammoth, woolly mammoth
- Ice Agesice age, glacial, glaciation, glacial period, ice sheet