A variant or alternative form of ascetic; a practitioner of asceticism or extreme religious discipline.
From Italian ascetta, derived from Latin asceta, from Greek asketes. This form preserves the more direct Romance language lineage of the Greek root.
Ascetta is primarily used in Italian and Romance language religious contexts—it's almost never seen in English, making it a linguistic fossil showing how the same Greek root evolved differently across languages.
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