zuccu
Sicilian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *tsucca, from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Cognate with Catalan soca, Spanish soca and French souche.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡suk.kʊ/ (Standard)
- Hyphenation: zùc‧cu
Noun
zuccu m (plural zucchi or zucca)
- stump (of a tree)
- Synonym: cippu
- O zuccu o ventu.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- ear canal
- zuccu di l'oricchia
- c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter I, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 2:
- Da l’autru latu lu gran Sanciu Panza ¶ Mi parra ’ntra lu zuccu di l’oricchia; […]
- On the other hand the great Sancho Panza, speaks to me right in the ear; […]
- (in the plural) estate (a person's lands)
- avirizucchi ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Related terms
- aviri a testa dura comu nu zuccu
- zuccu di Aci
- zuccu di cerza
Descendants
- → Maltese: zokk
See also
- cippu
- cucuzza
- fesi
- picu
- ràdica
- serra
- sirràculu
- zùccaru
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868), “zuccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4649
- Pasqualino (c. 1790), “zuccu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 5, page 348