fresco

From Italian fresco, from Vulgar Latin *friscum, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz. Doublet of fresh and frisk.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɛskoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɛskəʊ/

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• Rhymes: (General American) -ɛskoʊ, (Received Pronunciation) -ɛskəʊ
• Hyphenation: fre‧sco

fresco (countable and uncountable, plural frescos or frescoes or (rare, Italianate) freschi)

1. (countable) A cool, refreshing state of the air; coolness, duskiness, shade.
   • a. 1722 (date written), Matthew Prior, “Hans Carvel”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior , volume I, London: W Strahan, , published 1779, →OCLC, page 124:

     I cannot ſtay
     Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day:
     For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites,
     Love more the freſco of the nights;

2. (countable, painting) An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster.
3. (uncountable, painting) The technique used to make such an artwork.

fresco (third-person singular simple present frescoes, present participle frescoing, simple past and past participle frescoed)

1. (ambitransitive) To paint using fresco.

• al fresco
• giornata
• fresco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Cofers, corfes, forces

fresco

1. neuter of frescu

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fresco (schilderterm)

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From Italian fresco, from Vulgar Latin *friscum, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz. Doublet of vers and fris.

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• Hyphenation: fres‧co

fresco n (plural fresco's, diminutive frescootje n)

1. fresco

From Old Galician-Portuguese fresco (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *friscum.

Fresco, as a painting technique, was taken from Italian fresco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾesko/
• Rhymes: -esko
• Hyphenation: fres‧co

fresco m (plural frescos, feminine fresca, feminine plural frescas)

1. (uncountable) cool moderate or refreshing state of cold
2. (uncountable, feminine) cool in the morning or in the evening (during the summer)
3. (painting) fresco

• ao fresco

fresco (feminine fresca, masculine plural frescos, feminine plural frescas)

1. fresh, recent, young, rested
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 657:

     Et cada dia, depoys que esto fezo, parouse sua cara et seu corpo mays fresco

     And every day, after doing this, his face and his body were younger

   • 1434, M. Lucas Alvarez & M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 350:

     E non enperqua o "septe rogo", que se borrou estando fresquo, que paresçe que foy raydo

     and don't mistrust the "septe rogo", because it faded when fresh, although it looks as it was deleted

2. untransformed, not artificiality preserved (meat, fish)
   • 1291, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 79:

     La quartillos de salgada et xx quartillos de fresca et disso que da fresca marmara iiii quartillos ao salgar

     50 quarters of salted and 20 quarters of fresh and he said that the fresh one diminished 4 quarter after salting

3. cool (temperature)
4. impertinent

• “fresco”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “fresco” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fresco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fresc”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fresco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fresco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fresco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

fresco (plural frescos)

1. fresco (painting)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *friscum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfres.ko/

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• Rhymes: -esko
• Hyphenation: fré‧sco

fresco (feminine fresca, masculine plural freschi, feminine plural fresche, superlative freschissimo)

1. fresh
2. cool
3. wet, fresh (of paint)

   Antonym: asciutto

• → Dalmatian: fresc (probably)

fresco m (plural freschi)

1. coolness, freshness, cool
2. light wool material
3. (informal) cooler (prison)

   stare al fresco ― to be in the cooler

• caldo

• scrofe

From Old Galician-Portuguese fresco, from Vulgar Latin *friscum.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -esku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -eʃku
• Hyphenation: fres‧co

fresco (feminine fresca, masculine plural frescos, feminine plural frescas)

1. fresh (new or clean)

   ar fresco ― fresh air

2. (of plant material) fresh (not dried)

   ervas frescas ― fresh herbs

3. cool (having a slightly low temperature)

   água fresca ― cool water

4. (informal) fussy (tending to complain about petty details)

   Esse seu amigo é muito fresco! ― That friend of yours is too fussy!

5. (informal, derogatory) effeminate; fruity

fresco m (plural frescos, feminine fresca, feminine plural frescas)

1. (slang) fusser
2. (slang, derogatory) effeminate

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

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Borrowed from Italian fresco.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -esku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -eʃku
• Hyphenation: fres‧co

fresco m (plural frescos)

1. (painting, chiefly Portugal) fresco

   Synonym: afresco

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛsku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -ɛʃku
• Hyphenation: fres‧co

fresco

1. first-person singular present indicative of frescar

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fresco.

• “fresco”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “fresco” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “fresco”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “fresco”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “fresco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “fresco”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “fresco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *friscum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾesko/

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• Rhymes: -esko
• Syllabification: fres‧co

fresco (feminine fresca, masculine plural frescos, feminine plural frescas)

1. fresh
2. cool (temperature)

   Synonym: frío

3. cheeky

   Synonym: insolente

• → Belizean Creole: fresko
• → Bikol Central: presko

fresco m (plural frescos)

1. (weather) strong breeze
2. fresco (painting)
3. (Bolivia, Central America, Ecuador) soda, soft drink

   Synonyms: gaseosa, refresco, chesco, bebida

• “fresco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 10 December 2024