The "Vocabolario siciliano" is a five-volume lexicographic work on the

Sicilian language Sicilian ( scn, sicilianu, link=no, ; it, siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. A variant, ''Calabro-Sicilian'', is spoken in southern Calabria, where it is called Southern Calabro ...

by Giorgio Piccitto, Salvatore Tropea, and Salvatore Carmelo Trovato. It was realised with assistance from the Sicilian Autonomous Region and the

National Research Council (Italy) The National Research Council (Italian: ''Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR'') is the largest research council in Italy. As a public organisation, its remit is to support scientific and technological research. Its headquarters are in Rome. ...

. The initial project for the creation of a Sicilian-

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

dictionary was by Professor Giorgio Piccitto, in 1950. The project was then realized thanks to the ''linguistic section Opera del Vocabolario Siciliano'' created specifically by the Center for Philological and Linguistic Studies of Sicily. It was published between 1977 and 2002 and is considered the highest reference on the subject, with a total of about 5,500. It was also realized with the contribution of the Sicilian Region and the National Research Council. It is one of the most important works ever carried out on the

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Sicilian dictionaries {{Sicily-stub