coccare

See also: cucca and Cucca

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• corcare
• coccà, cuccà, corcà, curcà (alt. spellings)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin collocāre.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [kukˈka]

Verb

coccare

1. (transitive) to lay down
2. (intransitive and reflexive) to lie down, go to bed
   • 1976, La Gatta Cenerentola, Second Act:

     Matrigna: Pripara lu lietto e fallo cuccà c''o 'mbamberambì e 'o 'mbamberambà!
     Cenerentola: Oi mamma s'è cuccato!
     Coro: Bim bom bà!

     Stepmother: Make the bed and make him lie down with the [jibberish]!
     Cindrella: Hey mother, he lay down!
     Chorus: Bim bom bà!

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 659: “è coricato; coricarsi” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “coccare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano