stuccare

Italian

Etymology

From stucco "plaster, stucco", borrowed from Lombardic *stucki "crust, fragment, piece" from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją, *stukkijaz, *stukō, *stūkō (stick, beam, stump), from Proto-Indo-European *stAug- (stalk). Akin to German stukki "crust, fragment, piece" (German Stück "piece"), Old Saxon stukki "piece, fragment", Old English stycce "piece, fragment". More at stucco.

Verb

stuccare (transitive)

  1. to plaster (walls)
  2. to putty (windows)
  3. to grout (tiles)
  4. to stucco (decorate with stucco)

Conjugation

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