agucchia

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *acūcla (“needle”, root)[1] < *acūcula, hypothetical diminutive of Latin acus (“needle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-. Compare the doublet aguglia, taken from Old Occitan.

Noun

agucchia f (plural agucchie)

  1. (archaic) or (regional) needle, knitting needle

Synonyms

Verb

agucchia

  1. third-person singular present indicative of agucchiare
  2. second-person singular imperative of agucchiare

References
  1. http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/agucchia
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