stucco

Italian stucco (“coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster, stucco”) from Old Italian stucco, from Lombardic stucki, *stucchi (“crust, fragment, piece”) from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“stump, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to shock, butt, impact”). Akin to German Stück (“piece”), Old Saxon stukki (“piece, fragment”) and Old English stycce.

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• Rhymes: -ʌkəʊ

stucco (plural stuccoes or stuccos)

1. A plaster that is used to coat (interior or) exterior walls, or used for mouldings.
2. Work made of stucco; stuccowork.

• render, plaster

• stuccowork

stucco (third-person singular simple present stuccos or stuccoes, present participle stuccoing, simple past and past participle stuccoed)

1. (transitive) To coat or decorate with stucco.

• render, plaster

• Succot, succot

• IPA^(key): /ˈstuk.ko/
• Rhymes: -ukko
• Hyphenation: stùc‧co

From Old Italian stucco, borrowed from Lombardic stucki, stucchi, stuhhi (“crust, fragment, piece”) from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“stick, beam, stump”). Akin to German Stück (“piece”), Old Saxon stukki (“piece, fragment”), English stitch.

stucco m (plural stucchi)

1. stucco

• di stucco

• → English: stucco
• → Spanish: estuco
• → French: stuc
  • → Portuguese: estuque
• → German: Stuck

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stucco

1. first-person singular present indicative of stuccare