Noun: stambecco
Gender: m
Hyphenation: stam‧béc‧co
| Singular m | stambecco |
| Singular f | stambecca |
| Plural m | stambecchi |
Sample Sentences
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Mi dicono le guardie che ogni stambecco ha il suo pascolo riservato, […] (The guards tell me that every ibex has his reserved pasture, […]) [2007, Guido Piovene, Viaggio in Italia, Baldini Castoldi Dalai Edito, page 203:]
Nouns inflected like stambecco
bustocco,
bacucco,
pantesco,
vichingo,
saltimbanco,
polacco,
gallego,
bifolco,
sceicco,
ubriaco,
sciocco,
pitocco,
cecoslovacco,
guatemalteco,
stambecco,
cordesco,
monegasco,
abbadengo,
abbadingo,
ormeasco, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle High German steinboc. The Italian -a- may be a reduction of the [aɪ̯] in Standard German Steinbock or it could go back to a Bavarian dialect where Middle High German -ei- becomes [aː]; compare contemporary Bavarian Staabock (alongside Stoabock). The Italian -e- after becco, itself perhaps of Germanic origin. See: German Nouns '
Steinbock'.
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