teccola

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtek.ko.la/
  • Rhymes: -ekkola
  • Hyphenation: téc‧co‧la

Etymology 1

Akin to tacca (“stain, spot”).

Alternative forms

Noun

teccola f (plural teccole)

  1. (Tuscan) spot, fleck
  2. (figurative, Tuscan) flaw, fault

Etymology 2

Probably a conflation of taccola (“jackdaw”) with the above lemma.

Noun

teccola f (plural teccole)

  1. (central Italy) synonym of voltolino

Further reading

  • teccola1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • teccola2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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