zacusca – English noun declension

English noun forms of zacusca

Noun: zacusca
Singularzacusca

Sample Sentences

  • He took a piece of fish, a mouthful of bread, a few spoons of zacusca and then wished us a good rest with the warmest […] [2004, Augustin Buzura, Requiem for Fools and Beasts, page 438:]
  • Meanwhile your guide begins to unpack the picnic: slices of pork from local Durac pigs; zacusca, a tomato and pepper sauce made to your guide's mother's own recipe; wine from the grapes in her cobbled courtyard; and cheeses – salty cas and ricotta-like urda – recently made by the shepherd's wife. [2009, Richard Hammond, Clean Breaks: 500 New Ways to See the World, page 116:]
  • Breakfast was rye bread, beans, pickles and zacusca, a Romanian version of ratatouille, over-boiled so we used it as a spread. [2010, Florin Grancea, The Pigs' Slaughter, page 16:]
  • "Certainly," he answers, and so I get out some bread and the Zacusca (vegetable paste) to get him started, then I begin to make a sour soup with cabbage and potatoes and sour cream, of course. [2016, Alice Ann Lake, My Romance In the Carpathian Mountains: A Past Life Retold:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Russian закуси́ть (zakusítʹ)
3. Proto-Slavic *-ьka
4. Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der.
5. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ
6. Proto-Slavic *-ъka
7. Russian -ка (-ka)
8. Russian закуска (zakuska)bor.
9. Romanian zacuscăbor.
10. English zacusca
11. Borrowed from Romanian zacuscă. Doublet of zakuska. See: Romanian Nouns 'zacuscă'.