Sicilian

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *tsucca, from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (stock; stump). Cognate with Catalan soca, Spanish soca and French souche.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡suk.ku/ (Standard)
  • Hyphenation: zùc‧cu

Noun

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zuccu m (plural zucca)

  1. stump (of a tree)
    Synonym: cippu
    O zuccu o ventu.
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  2. ear canal
    In full: zuccu di l'oricchia
    • c. 1786, Giovanni Meli, chapter I, in Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza, stanza 2:
      Da l’autru latu lu gran Sanciu Panza ¶ Mi parra ’ntra lu zuccu di l’oricchia; []
      On the other hand the great Sancho Panza, speaks to me right in the ear; []
  3. (in the plural) estate (a person's lands)
    aviri zucchi(please add an English translation of this usage example)
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Descendants

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  • Maltese: zokk

See also

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References

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  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “zuccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 4649
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “zuccu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 5, page 348