Forty-six is 'e denare, money. The word is the plural of denaro and it is also the name of a suit: in a Neapolitan pack the four suits are coins, cups, swords and clubs, and denari is the coins.
The printed dictionary sends numero itself to 46, which is the closest the system ever comes to looking at its own reflection.
- 46
- 'E denare
- money
- Row 41–50 of the tabellone
Where the figure comes from
Nothing on record.
Other things filed on 46
In Neapolitan life
The coin suit carries the settebello, the seven of coins, which takes a point on its own in scopa — the card game played in every bar in Italy. Neapolitan card imagery and smorfia imagery grew up in the same rooms and share a good deal of furniture without anyone having mapped the overlap.
46 in the smorfia — frequently asked
Cash. 'E denare is coins and notes, the money in a pocket, not a fortune in the abstract.
The word is the same — denari is the coin suit in a Neapolitan pack. Whether the board meant the connection, no source says.