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cuculo

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin cucūlus, possibly borrowed.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kuˈku.lo/, /ˈku.ku.lo/[1][2][3]
  • Rhymes: -ulo, -ukulo
  • Hyphenation: cu‧cù‧lo, cù‧cu‧lo
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Noun

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cuculo m (plural cuculi)

  1. cuckoo; properly the common cuckoo
    Synonyms: cucco, cuccù, cucù

References

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  1. ^ cuculo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  2. ^ cuculo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  3. ^ https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/cuculo-o-cuculo_(La-grammatica-italiana)

Further reading

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

Latin

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Noun

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cucūlō

  1. dative/ablative singular of cucūlus

References

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  • “cuculo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cuculo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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