mastruca

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Italian

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Etymology

From Latin mastrūca, of Nuragic origin. Cognate with Sardinian mastruca, mastrucca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maˈstru.ka/
  • Rhymes: -uka
  • Hyphenation: ma‧strù‧ca

Noun

mastruca f (plural mastruche)

  1. a sheepskin or goatskin jacket, particularly one worn by Sardinian shepherds

Latin

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Etymology

From a Nuragic term. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

Noun

mastrūca f (genitive mastrūcae); first declension

  1. A sheepskin or goatskin jacket, as those worn by Sardinians.
  2. (figuratively) A ninny.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mastrūca mastrūcae
Genitive mastrūcae mastrūcārum
Dative mastrūcae mastrūcīs
Accusative mastrūcam mastrūcās
Ablative mastrūcā mastrūcīs
Vocative mastrūca mastrūcae

Derived terms

References

  • “mastruca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mastruca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mastruca 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)
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