Etymograph

English

stucco

Stucco comes from Italian stucco ‘coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster,…’, from Lombardic stucki ‘crust, fragment, piece’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- ‘to shock, butt, impact’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)tewg-‘to shock, butt, impact’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*stukkiją‘stump, piece’reconstructed
  3. Lombardicmodernstucki‘crust, fragment, piece’
  4. Old Italianmodernstucco
  5. Italianc. 1300–presentsame form‘coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster, stucco’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1869same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)tewg-‘to shock, butt, impact’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*stukkiją‘stump, piece’reconstructed
  3. Lombardicmodernstucki‘crust, fragment, piece’
  4. Old Italianmodernstucco
  5. Italianc. 1300–presentsame form‘coating made of pulverised gypsum, plaster, stucco’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1869same form

Earliest quotation: 1869, Cassell’s Household Guide: Being a Compl, London: Cassell: “The intervals having been filled with stucco, after the…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- ‘to shock, butt, impact’

stoke, 2 more

through Proto-Germanic *stukkiją ‘stump, piece’

stick, shtick, schtick, 2 more

Today it means

noun A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- / stucco

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