Fifty-one is 'o ciardino, the garden. The ci is regular: Neapolitan turns the Italian gi into a ci sound, which is how giardino becomes ciardino and giovane becomes ciovane in some spellings.
There is nothing else to report. No source explains the pairing, no dated edition helps, and the word-cluster around it (rent, a magpie, wax) points in no direction at all. Some squares on this board are simply squares, and inventing a story for them is how the internet's smorfia pages got the way they are.
- 51
- 'O ciardino
- the garden
- Row 51–60 of the tabellone
Where the figure comes from
None found.
Other things filed on 51
In Neapolitan life
Sicily has the wolf at 51 and no garden anywhere near it.
51 in the smorfia — frequently asked
Nobody knows, and no printed source offers a reason. It is one of the squares where the honest answer is that the figure was recorded rather than explained.
Mildly. Where no printed source offers a reason, a confident explanation has usually been written rather than found.