Etymology

femminiello

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Today it means: A member of a Neapolitan gender role, variously construed as a feminine-presenting man or a trans woman. Full definition →

Italian femminiello ← Neapolitan femmeniello
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The story

  1. Neapolitan · derived fromfemmeniello
  2. Italian · borrowed fromfemminiello
  3. English todayfemminiello

Borrowed from Italian femminiello, from Neapolitan femmeniello.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.