terracotta
English
/ˌtɛɹəˈkɒtə/
noun
Definitions
- A hard red-brown unglazed earthenware, used for pottery and building construction.
- A reddish brown colour, like that of terra cotta.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian terra (earth, ground, soil) root from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (cook, become ripe, bake).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pekʷ-
Gloss
cook, become ripe, bake
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- concoction English
- kitchenette English
- precocious English
- precociousness English
- terracottalike English
- terrakotta Finnish
- (persicum, persica) praecocia Latin
- coctilis Latin
- cocus Latin
- concoctiō Latin
- coquina Latin
- coquus Latin
- coquīna Latin
- coquō Latin
- coquō, coquo, coquere Latin
- culīna Latin
- culīnārius Latin
- decoctiō Latin
- decoquō Latin
- recoctus, recocta Latin
- terra Latin
- atterrare Italian
- entroterra Italian
- retroterra Italian
- sopratterra Italian
- sottoterra Italian
- sterrare Italian
- terra Italian
- terreo Italian
- terrigeno Italian
- terrone Italian
- charcuterie French
- haute French
- précocité French
- terre French
- δύσπεπτος Ancient Greek
- πέπων Ancient Greek
- πέψις Ancient Greek
- *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pékʷ-ye- Proto-Indo-European
- *kukōną Proto-Germanic
- पाचयति Sanskrit
- *pekti Proto-Slavic
- *peťi Proto-Slavic
- *potъ Proto-Slavic
- bescuit Old French
- tero Esperanto
- пухтан Persian
- پختن Persian
- *kʷokʷo- Proto-Celtic
- *kʷoxtos Proto-Celtic
- *pač- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *kʷekʷō Proto-Italic
- kepti Lithuanian
- päk- Tocharian B
- pewtene Zazaki
- päk- Tocharian A