mastruca

Italian

Alternative forms

  • mastrucca

Etymology

From Latin mastrūca, of Nuragic origin. Cognate with Sardinian mastruca, mastrucca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /masˈtru.ka/
  • Rhymes: -uka
  • Hyphenation: ma‧strù‧ca

Noun

mastruca f (plural mastruche)

  1. a sheepskin or goatskin jacket, particularly one worn by Sardinian shepherds

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From a Nuragic term. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

Noun

mastrūca f (genitive mastrūcae); first declension

  1. A sheepskin or goatskin jacket, as those worn by Sardinians.
  2. (figuratively) A ninny.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative mastrūca mastrūcae
genitive mastrūcae mastrūcārum
dative mastrūcae mastrūcīs
accusative mastrūcam mastrūcās
ablative mastrūcā mastrūcīs
vocative mastrūca mastrūcae

Derived terms

References

  • “mastruca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mastruca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "mastruca", 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)
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