vuscenza

• voscenza (borrowed from or influenced by Italian voscenza)

Borrowed, and nativized, from Spanish vuecencia, from vue(stra) +‎ (ex)c(el)encia, literally “your excellency”.

• IPA^(key): [(v)ʊʃˈʃɛn.t͡sa]
• Hyphenation: vu‧scèn‧za

vuscenza f sg (singular only)

1. (formal, honorific, courtly, now dated) indefinite pronoun; Your Lordship, Your Ladyship, Your Excellency

   Synonym: vussìa

   Vuscenza vulissi n'anticchia di acqua?

   Would you like to drink some water?

2. (polite, slightly ironic) you

• In place of the indicative present tense, this noun is typically used with the subjunctive past tense, third-person singular, to express a kind and indirect utterance.

• → Italian: voscenza