Noun: poculo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: pò‧cu‧lo
| Singular m | poculo |
| Plural m | poculi |
Sample Sentences
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Vieni ſciocco, e guardiam ſe fuor di porta, ¶ Se per quell'oſterie ſtia mercanteſſa ¶ A 'ncaparrar l'amor de' paſſeggieri, ¶ Ciurmatrice di poculi amatorj. (Come, you fool, and let's make sure if outside, in those taverns, is a merchantess selling the love of passersby, a breweress of love potions.) [1619, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, La fiera, published 1726, page 88:]
Nouns inflected like poculo
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pōculum, pōclum from Proto-Italic *pōtlom, from Proto-Indo-European *péh₃tlom, derived from the root *peh₃- (“to drink”). Cognate with Hindi पात्र (pātra) and Irish ól. See: Irish Nouns '
ól'.
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