becco
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See also: beccò
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos.
Noun
becco m (plural becchi)
- beak (structure projecting from a bird's face)
- (by extension):
- beak (anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak)
- a mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument
- the foremost part of a firearm's hammer
- Holonym: cane
- burner
- Hyponym: becco Bunsen
- (botany) beak (process somewhat like the beak of a bird)
- (aeronautics) leading edge
- Synonym: bordo di attacco
Derived terms
- antibecco
- avambecco
- becco Bunsen (“Bunsen burner”)
- beccuccio
- mettere il becco
Further reading
- becco1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Probably from either Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“male goat”) or Proto-Celtic *bukkos, whence French bouc. The -e- is most readily explained through the Middle High German plural böcke (early on also unrounded; compare contemporary Bavarian Beck). Alternatively from Latin ībex, though this is more problematic. Compare also northern French bique.
Noun
becco m (plural becchi)
- billygoat
- Hypernym: capra
- 1567, Ricettario fiorentino [Florentine Cookbook], page 97:
- Il sangue si usa in medicina, preso da molti animali […] come il sangue di colombo, di tortora, di testuggine marina, di becco, et d'altri
- Blood is used in medicine, taken from various animals, like blood of pigeon, of turtledove, of tortoise, of billygoat, and of others
- (figurative, derogatory, vulgar) cuckold
- Synonym: cornuto
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- becco2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- Battisti, Carlo, Alessio, Giovanni (1950–1957) Dizionario etimologico italiano, Firenze: Barbera
- Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
becco
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
beccō
References
- "becco", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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