tuccetum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === tucetum === Etymology === From tucca (“liquid lard”), a word probably of Celtic origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewk- (“to swell, fat”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtʊk.kɛ.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtut.t͡ʃe.tum] === Noun === tuccētum n (genitive tuccētī); second declension a kind of sausage made with meat of ox ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== Medieval Latin: *tuccīnum → Asturian: tocín → Portuguese: toucinho → Galician: touciño → Spanish: tocino→ Cebuano: tosino→ Tagalog: tosino === References === “tuccetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "tuccetum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)