Seventy-four is 'a rotta, the grotto or cave. The initial g of grotta has gone, which is regular in the dialect.
Naples and Trapani agree here almost letter for letter: a rutta on the Sicilian board, the same figure on the same number.
- 74
- 'A rotta
- the cave
- Row 71–80 of the tabellone
Where the figure comes from
No source for the pairing.
Other things filed on 74
In Neapolitan life
Naples is a city built on and into tufa, with a documented underground of Greek cisterns, Roman aqueducts and quarries that became wartime shelters. The Fontanelle ossuary itself is a worked-out tufa quarry. A grotto on the board is a local fact rather than a picturesque one.
74 in the smorfia — frequently asked
Yes, closely: 'a rotta and a rutta, the same cave on the same number.
Because the city is built into tufa and has a documented underground of cisterns, aqueducts and quarries. The Fontanelle ossuary at 85 is one of them.