scurra

Borrowed from Latin scurra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskur.ra/
• Rhymes: -urra
• Hyphenation: scùr‧ra

scurra m (plural scurri)

1. (literary, obsolete) joker, clown

   Synonyms: buffone, giullare

• scurra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Perhaps borrowed from Etruscan. Attempts to find an Indo-European etymology are semantically weak and formally unconvincing.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskur.ra/, [ˈs̠kʊrːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskur.ra/, [ˈskurːä]

scurra m (genitive scurrae); first declension

1. elegant man about town, dandy, rake
2. jester, joker, wit, clown

First-declension noun.

• Italian: scurra
• Portuguese: escurra
• Spanish: escurra

• “scurra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scurra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scurra 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)
• scurra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scurra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• carrus