rusco

Italian

Etymology

From Latin rūscum (“butcher's broom”), from Proto-Celtic *rūskos (“bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *HrewH- (“to dig”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrus.ko/
  • Rhymes: -usko
  • Hyphenation: rù‧sco

Noun

rusco m (plural ruschi)

  1. straw etc. used as bedding for animals
  2. (regional, Bologna) garbage, trash

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

ruscō

  1. dative/ablative singular of ruscum

References

  • “rusco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "rusco", 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)
  • “rusco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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