petulco
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin petulcus, derived from petō (“to attack”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
petulco (feminine petulca, masculine plural petulchi or petulci, feminine plural petulche) (literary)
- butting with the horns
- (by extension) aggressive (said of goats and kids)
Further reading[edit]
- petulco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana