stuccare

Italian

Etymology

    From stucco (plaster, stucco) +‎ -are, borrowed from Lombardic *stucki (crust, fragment, piece), from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją, *stukkijaz, *stukō, *stūkō (stick, beam, stump), from Proto-Indo-European *stAug- (stalk).

    Akin to Old High German stukki (crust, fragment, piece) (German Stück (piece)), Old Saxon stukki (piece, fragment), Old English stycce (piece, fragment). More at stucco.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /stukˈka.re/
    • Rhymes: -are
    • Hyphenation: stuc‧cà‧re

    Verb

    stuccàre (first-person singular present stùcco, first-person singular past historic stuccài, past participle stuccàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

    1. to plaster, to stucco (a wall)
    2. to putty (a window)
    3. to grout (tiles)
    4. to decorate (a wall, ceiling, etc.) with stucco
    5. to fill up, to satiate
    6. to nauseate
    7. to annoy, to bother
      Synonyms: annoiare, infastidire

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