rusco

Italian

Etymology

From Latin rūscum (“butcher's broom”), from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *HrewH- (“to dig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrus.ko/
• Rhymes: -usko
• Hyphenation: rù‧sco

Noun

rusco m (plural ruschi)

1. straw etc. used as bedding for animals
2. (regional, Bologna) garbage, trash

Anagrams

• scuro

Latin

Noun

ruscō

1. dative/ablative singular of ruscum

References

• “rusco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "rusco", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “rusco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.