fuco

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See also: Fuco and fuço

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fūcus (drone (male bee)), cognate with Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfu.ko/
  • Rhymes: -uko
  • Hyphenation: fù‧co

Noun

fuco m (plural fuchi)

  1. drone (male bee)
    Synonym: pecchione

Latin

Etymology

From fūcus (seaweed, orchil, pretense) +‎ .

Pronunciation

Verb

fūcō (present infinitive fūcāre, perfect active fūcāvī, supine fūcātum); first conjugation

  1. to colour, paint, dye
  2. to embellish, dissemble, falsify
    • Cicero, Pro Murena
      Isdem ineptiis fucata sunt illa omnia.
      Everything was painted over with the same foolishness.

Conjugation

Noun

fūcō

  1. dative/ablative singular of fūcus

References

  • fuco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fuco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fuco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fuco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • without any disguise, frankly: sine fuco ac fallaciis (Att. 1. 1. 1)