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Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin fuscus; Doublet of fosco.
Adjective
fusco (feminine fusca, masculine plural fuscos, feminine plural fuscas)
- not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster
Noun
fusco m (plural fuscos)
- dusk
Latin
Etymology
From fuscus (“dark, swarthy, dusky”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
Verb
fuscō (present infinitive fuscāre, perfect active fuscāvī, supine fuscātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to make dark, swarthy or dusky; blacken, darken
- (intransitive) to become dark or swarthy
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Adjective
fuscō
- inflection of fuscus:
- dative masculine/neuter/neuter singular
- ablative masculine singular
References
- “fusco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fusco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fusco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fuscus; doublet of fosco.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -usku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -uʃku
- Hyphenation: fus‧co
Adjective
fusco (feminine fusca, masculine plural fuscos, feminine plural fuscas)
- dark (color/colour)
- Synonyms: escuro, pardo
- (figurative) sad
- Synonym: triste
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