muccu
Sicilian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin muccus, from Latin mūcus. Compare Neapolitan mucco and Italian moccolo.
Noun
[edit]muccu m (uncountable)
References
[edit]- Traina, Antonino (1868) “muccu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2577
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “'muccu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 3, page 209
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 169: “il moccio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it