parrucca

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)

wig

Related terms

Descendants

Hungarian: paróka

References

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