tucca

Unknown, probably Celtic or from a Pre-Celtic substrate,^[1] perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *tewk- (“to swell; fat”).^[2][3] Cognate of Umbrian toco (“liquid lard”) and Gaulish tuccus (“back”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtuk.ka/, [ˈt̪ʊkːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtuk.ka/, [ˈt̪ukːä]

tucca f (genitive tuccae); first declension^[2]

1. some kind of sauce^[4] or broth, possibly liquid lard

This word appears in the Latin–Greek glossary of Pseudo-Philoxenus with the Greek gloss κατάχυμα ζωμοῦ (katákhuma zōmoû, “lard sauce”).^[5]

• tuccētum

• Friulian: tocj
• Italian: tocco
• Ligurian: tuccu
• Spanish: tuco
• Venetan: tocio

• Tucca

• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “tucca, tuccētum”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 706