Noun: cucchiaio
Gender: m
Hyphenation: cuc‧chià‧io
| Singular m | cucchiaio |
| Plural m | cucchiai |
Sample Sentences
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Questo cucchiaio è per il tè. (This spoon is for tea.)
Nouns inflected like cucchiaio
mioepitelio,
reziario,
sfizio,
proechimio,
scafio,
scimio,
scolio,
bestiario,
rogatario,
solaio,
soffio,
undicennio,
silfio,
iodoformio,
acrostolio,
capecchio,
cappellinaio,
fillocladio,
metalloscopio,
straordinario, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Latin cochleārium, derived from cochlear, from cochlea (“snail”), which perhaps was an instrument used to eat eggs and snails. It's also possible that it derives from the use to which it was put, the concave shape, or perhaps originally it was made with the shell of a snail.
2. Cognate with Sicilian cucchiara, French cuillère, Portuguese colher, Catalan cullera and Spanish cuchara. See: Latin Nouns '
cochleārium', Latin Nouns '
cochleārium', French Nouns '
cuillère', Portuguese Nouns '
colher', Catalan Nouns '
cullera', Spanish Nouns '
cuchara'.
Verbs referencing "cucchiaio"
Spanish Nouns
cuchara, French Nouns
cuillère.
Translations