zacusca
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He took a piece of fish, a mouthful of bread, a few spoons of zacusca and then wished us a good rest with the warmest […]"
- "Meanwhile your guide begins to unpack the picnic: slices of pork from local Durac pigs; zacusca, a tomato and pepper sauce made to your guide's mother's own recipe; wine from the grapes in her cobbled courtyard; and cheeses – salty cas and ricotta-like urda – recently made by the shepherd's wife."
- "Breakfast was rye bread, beans, pickles and zacusca, a Romanian version of ratatouille, over-boiled so we used it as a spread."
- ""Certainly," he answers, and so I get out some bread and the Zacusca (vegetable paste) to get him started, then I begin to make a sour soup with cabbage and potatoes and sour cream, of course."
Etymology
Etymology tree Russian закуси́ть (zakusítʹ) Proto-Slavic *-ьka Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Russian -ка (-ka) Russian закуска (zakuska)bor. Romanian zacuscăbor. English zacusca Borrowed from Romanian zacuscă. Doublet of zakuska.