tocco

Deverbal from toccare (“to touch”) +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtok.ko/
• Rhymes: -okko
• Hyphenation: tóc‧co

tocco m (plural tocchi)

1. touch
2. knock, rap, blow
3. stroke (of a clock or a brush); one o'clock

From toccare +‎ -o (forms participles).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtok.ko/
• Rhymes: -okko
• Hyphenation: tóc‧co

tocco (feminine tocca, masculine plural tocchi, feminine plural tocche)

1. touched (not totally sane)

   una persona un po' tocca ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. bruised (of fruit)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtok.ko/
• Rhymes: -okko
• Hyphenation: tóc‧co

tocco

1. first-person singular present indicative of toccare

Probably from Latin tucca (liquid lard(?)). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔk.ko/
• Rhymes: -ɔkko
• Hyphenation: tòc‧co

tocco m (plural tocchi)

1. hunk, chunk (especially of food)
2. meat sauce (in Genoese cuisine)

Borrowed from French toque.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔk.ko/
• Rhymes: -ɔkko
• Hyphenation: tòc‧co

tocco m (plural tocchi)

1. toque (type of brimless hat, sometimes worn today by magistrates, lawyers and university professors along with a toga)

Borrowed from Italian toccare, itself inherited from Vulgar Latin *tuccāre, borrowed from Frankish *tukkōn (“to touch, hit”).

toccō (present infinitive toccāre, perfect active toccāvī, supine toccātum); first conjugation

1. (Renaissance Latin) to touch