{"id":474,"date":"2014-06-15T23:44:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T21:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moked.it\/international\/?p=474"},"modified":"2014-06-15T23:44:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T21:44:30","slug":"italian-word-of-the-week-zucchetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moked.it\/international\/2014\/06\/15\/italian-word-of-the-week-zucchetto\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Word of the Week ZUCCHETTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moked.it\/international\/files\/2014\/04\/italics.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moked.it\/international\/files\/2014\/04\/italics.png\" alt=\"italics\" width=\"206\" height=\"92\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-47\" \/><\/a>By <strong>Daniela Gross<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The word \u201czucchetto\u201d is the diminutive of \u201cgourd, pumpkin\u201d, in Italian \u201czucca\u201d, term that figuratively and playfully can indicate the head. The \u201czucchetto\u201d is the small round skullcap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastic: even if you\u2019ve ever heard about it, probably you noticed it during the recent visit of Pope Francis in Israel. It is so similar to the Jewish kippah that sometimes they look almost identical, but their significance and their usage are completely different.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic \u201czucchetto\u201d (used also by higher Anglican clergy) was adopted in the Early Middle Ages and had a mere practical origin. Its purpose was to cover the tonsure of the clerics, who had short haircuts and shaved the crown of the head, and to protect them from the terrible cold in the unheated churches and monasteries. With the time that cap acquired the role of identifying ecclesiastical rank by the color of the zucchetto. Only the pope is entitled to wear the white, while the red indicate cardinals and the amaranth patriarchs, archbishops and bishops. The lower clergy can use only the black cap, though it has fallen out of use. So, unlike in the Jewish world the \u201czucchetto\u201d is not a religious custom and doesn\u2019t indicate a specific attitude toward the Divinity. <\/p>\n<p>But to complicate matters, in Italy \u201czucchetto\u201d and kippah are almost identical. Some experts say that the skullcap of the clergy has always a small stem on the top (just like the small gourd\u2026) and it\u2019s always lined. But so are many Italian kippot, especially those used during the High Holidays. And to make things even more confusing, Italian Jews often refer to the kippah as \u201czucchetto\u201d: it\u2019s more polite to avoid a Hebrew word with people that couldn\u2019t understand it, don\u2019t you agree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniela Gross The word \u201czucchetto\u201d is the diminutive of \u201cgourd, pumpkin\u201d, in Italian \u201czucca\u201d, term that figuratively and playfully can indicate the head. 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