cuc

Possibly of onomatopoeic origin.^[1] Compare to Aragonese cuco or Sardinian cucurra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkuk]

• Audio (Valencia):

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cuc m (plural cucs)

1. worm

•   cuc on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

From Late Latin cucus or cuccus, compare also Latin cuculus.

cuc m (plural cucs)

1. cuckoo
2. (figurative) fool

cuc m (plural cucs)

1. look, glance, peep

• cucâ

From Proto-Mayan *kuuʼk.

cuc

1. squirrel

• Church, Clarence, Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano‎^[1] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 6; 10

 

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cuc

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Inherited from Late Latin cucus or cuccus. Compare Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux), Classical Latin cuculus.

• IPA^(key): /kuk/

cuc m (plural cuci)

1. cuckoo (bird)
2. (figurative) an extravagant thing
3. (adverbial) alone, isolated
4. a game played by little kids (like hide and go seek)
5. (figurative, euphemistic) a penis

• cucu
• cuculă

• cuculide
• cuculiforme

• cuc in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

cuc m (plural cucs)

1. (Surmiran) nap

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) siesta, durmida
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) cupid
• (Sursilvan) tut
• (Sutsilvan) sien
• (Surmiran) cupidada, durmeidetta
• (Puter, Vallader) sönin
• (Vallader) sönet

From the ISO 4217 code CUC.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuk/ [ˈkuk]
• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: cuc

cuc m (plural cuc)

1. (Cuba, informal) Cuban convertible peso

cuc

1. Obsolete spelling of kúuk.