zucchetto

English

Alternative forms

• zuchetto (non-standard)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian zucchetto, ultimately a diminutive of zucca (“gourd, squash”), due to the shape. Compare zucchini.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tsʊˈkɛtəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /(t)sʊˈkɛtoʊ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛtəʊ

Noun

zucchetto (plural zucchettos)

1. A small skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy (the Pope's is white, a cardinal's red, a bishop's purple, and a priest's black), Anglican clergy, and Syriac or Malankara Orthodox clergy

   Synonym: calotte

Translations

small skullcap worn by Catholic clergy

• Belarusian: піу́ска f (piúska)
• Catalan: solideu m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小瓜帽 (xiǎoguāmào)

• Dutch: solideo n, pileolus m, zucchetto n, solideetje n, kalot (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: vertoĉapo, papoĉapo, pileolo, solideo
• Finnish: zucchetto
• French: calotte (fr) f, submitrale (fr) f
• German: Pileolus m, Zucchetto m, Soli Deo m, Subbirettum n, Submitrale n, Scheitelkäppchen n, Kalotte (de) f
• Greek: καλότα (el) f (kalóta)
• Hungarian: soli deo, pileólus
• Italian: zucchetto (it) m
• Japanese: カロッタ (karotta)
• Korean: 주케토 (juketo)
• Latin: pileolus m
• Latvian: piuska f, pileolusu m
• Polish: piuska (pl) f
• Portuguese: solidéu m
• Russian: пиле́олус (ru) m (piléolus)
• Slovene: škofovska čepica f
• Spanish: solideo (es) m
• Ukrainian: піле́олус m (piléolus)

Further reading

• zucchetto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

zucchetto nero

Etymology

From zucca (“gourd, squash”) +‎ -etto (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/d͡zukˈket.to/, (traditional) ^*/t͡sukˈket.to/
• Rhymes: -etto
• Hyphenation: zuc‧chét‧to

Noun

zucchetto m (plural zucchetti)

1. (Roman Catholicism) zucchetto, calotte (small skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy)
2. (uncommon) Diminutive of zucca; zucchini

   Synonyms: zucchetta, zucchina

Further reading

• zucchetto on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• zucchetto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana