Etymology

bucchero

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Today it means: A type of dark grey Etruscan terracotta pottery. Full definition →

Italian bucchero ← Spanish búcaro ← Portuguese púcaro
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompōculum
  2. Portuguese · derived frompúcaro
  3. Spanish · derived frombúcaro
  4. Italian · borrowed frombucchero
  5. English todaybucchero

From Italian bucchero, from Spanish búcaro, from Portuguese púcaro, from Latin pōculum. Doublet of poculum.

Words from the same roots

Latinpōculum all →

poculationpoculiformpoculum

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.