becco

• IPA^(key): /ˈbek.ko/
• Rhymes: -ekko
• Hyphenation: béc‧co

From Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos.

becco m (plural becchi)

1. beak (structure projecting from a bird's face)
2. (by extension):
   1. beak (anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak)
   2. a mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument
   3. the foremost part of a firearm's hammer

      Holonym: cane

   4. burner

      Hyponym: becco Bunsen

3. (botany) beak (process somewhat like the beak of a bird)
4. (aeronautics) leading edge

   Synonym: bordo di attacco

• becco¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Uncertain. Probably from either Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“male goat”) or Proto-Celtic *bukkos, whence French bouc. The -e- is most readily explained through the Middle High German plural böcke (early on also unrounded; compare contemporary Bavarian Beck). Alternatively from Latin ībex, though this is more problematic. Compare also northern French bique.

becco m (plural becchi)

1. billygoat

   Hypernym: capra

   • 1567, Ricettario fiorentino [Florentine Cookbook]‎, page 97:

     Il sangue si usa in medicina, preso da molti animali […] come il sangue di colombo, di tortora, di testuggine marina, di becco, et d'altri

     Blood is used in medicine, taken from various animals, like blood of pigeon, of turtledove, of tortoise, of billygoat, and of others

2. (figurative, derogatory, vulgar) cuckold

   Synonym: cornuto

• stambecco

• becco² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• Battisti, Carlo, Alessio, Giovanni (1950–1957) Dizionario etimologico italiano, Firenze: Barbera
• Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

becco

1. first-person singular present indicative of beccare

• bocce

beccō

1. dative/ablative singular of beccus

• becco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)