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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian secco (“dry”). Doublet of sec.
Adjective
secco (not comparable)
- (art) dry
- Secco painting, or painting in secco, is painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, on wet or fresh plaster.
- (music) dry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance
Noun
secco (plural seccos)
- (art) A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco.
1987, James Black, Recent Advances in the Conservation and Analysis of Artifacts, page 289:The Roman frescoes are generally robust, but the Chinese and Egyptian seccos are inherently weak […]
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.
Adjective
secco (feminine secca, masculine plural secchi, feminine plural secche, diminutive secchìno or secchétto)
- dry
- Synonym: asciutto
- Antonym: bagnato
- dried
- Synonym: disseccato
- thin
- Synonyms: magro, snello
- Antonym: grasso
- sharp
- Synonyms: brusco, asciutto
- (card games) being the only ones of their suit in a players hand (of cards)
- asso secco ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- asso e cavallo secchi ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Noun
secco m (plural secchi)
- dryland
- dryness
- drought
- Synonym: siccità
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
secco
- first-person singular present indicative of seccare
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Verb
secco
- first-person singular present indicative of seccar