scurra

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scurra.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈskur.ra/
  • Rhymes: -urra
  • Hyphenation: scùr‧ra

Noun

scurra m (plural scurri)

  1. (literary, obsolete) joker, clown
    Synonyms: buffone, giullare

Further reading
  • scurra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps borrowed from Etruscan. Attempts to find an Indo-European etymology are semantically weak and formally unconvincing.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

scurra m (genitive scurrae); first declension

  1. elegant man about town, dandy, rake
  2. jester, joker, wit, clown

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scurra scurrae
Genitive scurrae scurrārum
Dative scurrae scurrīs
Accusative scurram scurrās
Ablative scurrā scurrīs
Vocative scurra scurrae

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Italian: scurra
  • Portuguese: escurra
  • Spanish: escurra

References
  • “scurra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “scurra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scurra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • scurra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “scurra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 548

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