stucco

Borrowed from Italian stucco (“coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster, stucco”) from Old Italian stucco, from Lombardic stucki, *stucchi (“crust, fragment, piece”) from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“stump, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to shock, butt, impact”). Akin to German Stück (“piece”), Old Saxon stukki (“piece, fragment”) and Old English stycce. Related to stock.

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• Rhymes: -ʌkəʊ

stucco (countable and uncountable, plural stuccoes or stuccos or stucchi)

1. A plaster that is used to coat interior or exterior walls, or used for mouldings.
   • 1869, Cassell’s Household Guide: Being a Complete Encyclopædia of Domestic and Social Economy, and Forming a Guide to Every Department of Practical Life, volume IV, London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, […], page 143, column 1:

     The intervals having been filled with stucco, after the manner described under that head, each is sprinkled with water, and well rubbed with the float until the surface becomes perfectly smooth. This stucco must be thoroughly dry before the paint or other finishing is applied.

   • 2023 November 17, Michael Snyder, “A Guide to Guadalajara, Mexico’s City of Makers”, in The New York Times Style Magazine‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 November 2023:

     The writer Juan Rulfo, whose 1955 novel, “Pedro Páramo,” still stands as the central monument of modern Mexican literature, grew up in Jalisco and vividly depicted its arid, sun-blasted landscapes in his writing, while the architect Luis Barragán, who moved from Guadalajara to Mexico City in the 1930s, carried with him an appreciation for his home state’s cloisters, haciendas and humble country buildings, which he translated in his own work as austere, inscrutable volumes of stucco.

2. Work made of stucco; stuccowork.
   • 1967, C. P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, London, →ISBN, page 20:

     A stone staircase ‘well furnished with stucco’ led to Dr. Delany’s panelled but otherwise undecorated library, Mrs. Delany’s boudoir or bedroom opening through an arched doorway on her painting closet and a fine drawing room about 30 ft. by 25 ft. which gave a splendid view over the city – fastigia despicit urbis.

   • 1976, A. Ennabli, “MACOMADES MINORES”, in Richard Stillwell, William L[loyd] MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 540, column 1:

     Many stuccos and paintings were also found on the mosaic floor of the presbyterium and choir; most of these are now in the Bardo Museum in Tunis.

• render, plaster

• stuccowork

stucco (third-person singular simple present stuccos or stuccoes, present participle stuccoing, simple past and past participle stuccoed)

1. (transitive) To coat or decorate with stucco.

• render, plaster

• Succot, succot

• IPA^(key): /ˈstuk.ko/
• Rhymes: -ukko
• Hyphenation: stùc‧co

From Old Italian stucco, borrowed from Lombardic stucki, stucchi, stuhhi (“crust, fragment, piece”) from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“stick, beam, stump”). Akin to German Stück (“piece”), Old Saxon stukki (“piece, fragment”), English stitch.

stucco m (plural stucchi)

1. stucco
2. putty

• di stucco

• → English: stucco
• → Spanish: estuco
• → French: stuc
  • → Dutch: stuc
  • → Portuguese: estuque
• → German: Stuck

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stucco

1. first-person singular present indicative of stuccare