stucco

See also: stuccò

English

Stucco angels

Etymology

Italian stucco (“coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster, stucco”) from Old Italian stucco, from Lombardic stucki, *stucchi (“crust, fragment, piece”) from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“stump, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to shock, butt, impact”). Akin to German Stück (“piece”), Old Saxon stukki (“piece, fragment”) and Old English stycce. Related to stock.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌkəʊ

Noun

stucco (countable and uncountable, plural stuccoes or stuccos or stucchi)

1. A plaster that is used to coat interior or exterior walls, or used for mouldings.
   • 1869, Cassell’s Household Guide: Being a Complete Encyclopædia of Domestic and Social Economy, and Forming a Guide to Every Department of Practical Life, volume IV, London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, […], page 143, column 1:

     The intervals having been filled with stucco, after the manner described under that head, each is sprinkled with water, and well rubbed with the float until the surface becomes perfectly smooth. This stucco must be thoroughly dry before the paint or other finishing is applied.

2. Work made of stucco; stuccowork.
   • 1967, C. P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, London, →ISBN, page 20:

     A stone staircase ‘well furnished with stucco’ led to Dr. Delany’s panelled but otherwise undecorated library, Mrs. Delany’s boudoir or bedroom opening through an arched doorway on her painting closet and a fine drawing room about 30 ft. by 25 ft. which gave a splendid view over the city – fastigia despicit urbis.

   • 1976, A. Ennabli, “MACOMADES MINORES”, in edited by Richard Stillwell, William L[loyd] MacDonald, and Marian Holland McAllister, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 540, column 1:

     Many stuccos and paintings were also found on the mosaic floor of the presbyterium and choir; most of these are now in the Bardo Museum in Tunis.

Synonyms

• render, plaster

Derived terms

• stuccowork

Translations

a plaster that is used to coat interior or exterior wall

• Azerbaijani: suvaq, mala
• Bulgarian: външна мазилка f (vǎnšna mazilka)
• Catalan: estuc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灰泥 (zh) (huīní), 石膏 (zh) (shígāo)

• Danish: stuk (da) c or n
• Dutch: stuc (nl), pleisterkalk (nl)
• Finnish: stukko (fi)
• French: stuc (fr) m
• Galician: estuque m
• German: Putz (de) m, Wandputz m, Putzmörtel m
• Greek:

  Ancient: κονίαμα n (koníama)

• Hungarian: stukkó (hu), díszvakolat (hu), vakolat (hu), gipszvakolat (hu)
• Japanese: 化粧しっくい (けしょうしっくい, keshō-shikkui)
• Latin: tectōrium n, (white) albarium n
• Polish: stiuk m
• Russian: штукату́рка (ru) f (štukatúrka)
• Spanish: estuco (es)
• Turkish: stuko, stük, stükko, stüko, ustuka

work made of stucco; stuccowork

• German: Stuck (de) m, Stuckarbeit f, Stuckatur f
• Hungarian: stukkó (hu)
• Polish: stiuk m
• Russian: лепни́на (ru) f (lepnína)
• Spanish: estucado (es) m
• Turkish: stuko, stük, stükko, stüko, ustuka

Verb

stucco (third-person singular simple present stuccos or stuccoes, present participle stuccoing, simple past and past participle stuccoed)

1. (transitive) To coat or decorate with stucco.

Synonyms

• render, plaster

Translations

(transitive) To coat or decorate with stucco

• Bulgarian: измазвам (izmazvam)
• French: stucquer (fr), stuquer (fr)
• Hungarian: stukkóz
• Russian: штукатурить (ru) (štukaturitʹ)

Anagrams

• Succot, succot

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstuk.ko/
• Rhymes: -ukko
• Hyphenation: stùc‧co

Etymology 1

From Old Italian stucco, borrowed from Lombardic stucki, stucchi, stuhhi (“crust, fragment, piece”) from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“stick, beam, stump”). Akin to German Stück (“piece”), Old Saxon stukki (“piece, fragment”), English stitch.

Noun

stucco m (plural stucchi)

1. stucco
2. putty

Derived terms

• di stucco

Descendants

• → English: stucco
• → Spanish: estuco
• → French: stuc
  • → Portuguese: estuque
• → German: Stuck

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

stucco

1. first-person singular present indicative of stuccare