parrucca
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain; according to the OED, possibly related to Latin pilus (“hair”), but there are phonetic difficulties.[1] It could instead be related to parrocchetto (“parakeet”), referring to the feathers.[2] Compare French perruque.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
parrucca f (plural parrucche)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Hungarian: paróka
References edit
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- ^ “peruke”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.