uccello

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See also: uccellò

Italian

uccelli

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /utˈt͡ʃɛl.lo/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛllo
  • Hyphenation: uc‧cèl‧lo

Etymology 1

From Late Latin aucellus m (little bird), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (bird), from Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis. Doublet of augello, which was borrowed from Occitan. Compare Neapolitan auciello, Ligurian öxéllo.

Noun

uccello m (plural uccelli)

  1. bird
    Synonyms: volatile, pennuto, augello (archaic)
  2. (slang, vulgar) willy (British), peter (US), dick; (the penis)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

uccello

  1. first-person singular present indicative of uccellare

Further reading

  • uccello on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • uccello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana