fosco

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fosco, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque). fusco is a doublet.

Adjective

fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)

  1. not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fuscus (“dark, dim”).[1] Compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfo.sko/
  • Rhymes: -osko
  • Hyphenation: fó‧sco
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Adjective

fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foschi, feminine plural fosche)

  1. dark, murky, dusky
    Antonyms: chiaro, luminoso
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 4–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Non fronda verde, ma di color fosco; / non rami schietti, ma nodosi e ’nvolti; / non pomi v’eran, ma stecchi con tòsco.
      Not green foliage green, but of a dusky color; not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertangled; there were not apple-trees, but thorns with poison.
  2. (weather) dull, overcast
    Synonyms: nebbioso, brumoso
  3. (figurative) gloomy; sad
    dipingere a tinte fosche
    to paint a gloomy picture
    (literally, “to paint in dark colors”)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ fosco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fosco, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque). Doublet of fusco.

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)

  1. matte, not shiny (having a matte finish or no particular luster)

Anagrams

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfosko/
  • Rhymes: -osko
  • Syllabification: fos‧co

Adjective

fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)

  1. Synonym of hosco

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