tuccetum

Latin

Alternative forms

• tucetum

Etymology

From tucca (“liquid lard”), a word said to be of Celtic origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtuk.ke.tum/, [ˈt̪ʊkːɛt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtut.t͡ʃe.tum/, [ˈt̪utː͡ʃet̪um]

Noun

tuccētum n (genitive tuccētī); second declension

1. a kind of sausage made with meat of ox

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tuccētum	tuccēta
Genitive	tuccētī	tuccētōrum
Dative	tuccētō	tuccētīs
Accusative	tuccētum	tuccēta
Ablative	tuccētō	tuccētīs
Vocative	tuccētum	tuccēta

Descendants

• Medieval Latin: tuccinum
  • → Portuguese: toucinho
  • → Galician: touciño
  • → Spanish: tocino
    • → Cebuano: tosino

References

• “tuccetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tuccetum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)