mastruca

Italian

Alternative forms

• mastrucca

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

Alternative forms

• mastrūga

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /masˈtruː.ka/, [mäs̠ˈt̪ruːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /masˈtru.ka/, [mäsˈt̪ruːkä]

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	mastrūca	mastrūcae
genitive	mastrūcae	mastrūcārum
dative	mastrūcae	mastrūcīs
accusative	mastrūcam	mastrūcās
ablative	mastrūcā	mastrūcīs
vocative	mastrūca	mastrūcae

Derived terms

• mastrūcātus

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)