tucca

Latin

Etymology

Unknown, probably Celtic or from a Pre-Celtic substrate,[1] perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *tewk- (to swell; fat).[2][3] Cognate of Umbrian toco (liquid lard) and Gaulish tuccus (back).

Pronunciation

Noun

tucca f (genitive tuccae); first declension[2]

  1. some kind of sauce[4] or broth, possibly liquid lard

Usage notes

This word appears in the Latin–Greek glossary of Pseudo-Philoxenus with the Greek gloss κατάχυμα ζωμοῦ (katákhuma zōmoû, lard sauce).[5]

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tucca tuccae
genitive tuccae tuccārum
dative tuccae tuccīs
accusative tuccam tuccās
ablative tuccā tuccīs
vocative tucca tuccae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Friulian: tocj
  • Italian: tocco
  • Ligurian: tuccu
  • Spanish: tuco
  • Venetan: tocio

See also

  • Tucca

References

  1. ^ Sereni, Emilio (1997) “Vita e tecniche forestali nella Liguria antica”, in Annali dell’Istituto «Alcide Cervi» (in Italian), volume 19, page 131, note 318
  2. 2.0 2.1 Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “tucca”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 713
  3. ^ Fleuriot, Léon (1991) “Celtoromanica in the Light of the Newly Discovered Celtic Inscriptions”, in Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, volume 44, number 1, →DOI, page 14
  4. ^ Nettleship, Henry (1889) Contributions to Latin Lexicography. Oxford, Clarendon Press, page 602
  5. ^ Charles Labbé, editor (1679), Cyrilli, Philoxeni, aliorumque veterum Glossaria latino-graeca [], Paris: Louis Billaine, page 188
  • Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “tucca, tuccētum”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 706