zuccu

Sicilian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Related terms

• aviri a testa dura comu ô zuccu
• zuccu di Aci
• zuccu di cerza

 

Descendants

• → Maltese: zokk

See also

• cippu
• cucuzza
• fesi
• picu
• ràdica
• serra
• sirràculu
• zùccaru

 

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “zuccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano (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