-schina and other suffixes

[Deborah Hoffman]

Alina has pointed out to me that soldatesca does
indeed have the collective meaning of "soldiers" and
not just the adjectival meaning.  Does anyone here
know how this may have evolved?  


>This is a fascinating thread.  I feel compelled to
>point out however that -esca need not be negative but
>only means "in the style of," so I suppose the
>connotation depends on the speaker's relation to said
>soldato or said puttana :-).  You may be thinking of
>-accio as in parolaccia, something a speaker with a
>negative relation to the above personages might make
>liberal use of.  Regardless of linguistics, fresh
>puttanesca sauce is definitely one of the great
>pleasures in life.

>>I think Italian has a similar suffix -esca
>>(soldatesca, >puttanesca, known better on these
shores
>>as spaghetti sauce)

Deborah Hoffman
Finance Chair, Graduate Student Senate
Modern and Classical Language Studies
Kent State University
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