parrucca

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Italian

Etymology

Uncertain; according to the OED, possibly related to Latin pilus (“hair”), but there are phonetic difficulties.[1] It could instead be related to parrocchetto (“parakeet”), referring to the feathers.[2] Compare French perruque.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /parˈruk.ka/
  • Rhymes: -ukka
  • Hyphenation: par‧rùc‧ca

Noun

parrucca f (plural parrucche)

  1. wig

Descendants

  • Hungarian: paróka

References

  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
  2. ^ “peruke”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

  • parrucca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • parrucca in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
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