bucchero
English edit
Etymology edit
From Italian bucchero, from Spanish búcaro, from Portuguese púcaro. Doublet of poculum.
Noun edit
bucchero (uncountable)
- A type of dark grey Etruscan terracotta pottery.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish búcaro (“clay; clay vase”), from Portuguese púcaro, from Old Galician-Portuguese pucaro, from Latin pōculum (“drinking cup”), from Proto-Italic *pōtlom, from Proto-Indo-European *péh₃tlom, derived from the root *peh₃- (“to drink”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bucchero m (plural buccheri)
- a type of odorous clay
- Synonym: barro
- (by extension) a vase or other object made from this clay
- Synonym: barro
- a piece of bucchero pottery
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Further reading edit
- bucchero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana