Noun: parrucca
Gender: f
Hyphenation: par‧rùc‧ca
| Singular f | parrucca |
| Plural f | parrucche |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like parrucca
demoltiplica,
sariga,
scocca,
scolca,
transcaratteristica,
fotoelettrica,
ultracentrifuga,
stereomeccanica,
pulcesecca,
analisi matematica,
criminalistica,
geomatematica,
autopubblica,
nutraceutica,
retorica,
registroteca,
microplastica,
farmacofisica,
aerofisica,
iconoteca, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Uncertain; according to the OED, possibly related to Latin pilus (“hair”), but there are phonetic difficulties. It could instead be related to parrocchetto (“parakeet”), referring to the feathers. Compare its descendant French perruque and also Corsican and Sicilian pilucca and Romagnol piróca. See: Latin Nouns '
pilus', French Nouns '
perruque'.
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