cuculo
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin cucūlus, possibly borrowed.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈku.ku.lo/, (traditional) /kuˈku.lo/[1]
- Rhymes: -ukulo, (traditional) -ulo
- Hyphenation: cù‧cu‧lo, (traditional) cu‧cù‧lo
Noun edit
cuculo m (plural cuculi)
- cuckoo; properly the common cuckoo
References edit
- ^ cuculo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading edit
- cuculo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Noun edit
cucūlō
References edit
- “cuculo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cuculo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.