tosc

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Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tuscus. Compare Friulian tosc.

Pronunciation

Adjective

tosc (feminine tosca, masculine plural toscs or toscos, feminine plural tosques)

  1. crude
    Synonyms: rude, rústec
  2. coarse
    Synonym: inculte

Derived terms

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin tuscus (“Etruscan”), in the context of Vicus Tuscus in Rome, whose inhabitants had a bad reputation. Compare Venetian tosco (“boor”), Spanish tosco (“crude, rough, uncouth”), Catalan tosc (“rough, coarse”), compare also Albanian toskë.

Adjective

tosc

  1. equivocal, shady

Ladin

Adverb

tosc

  1. (Gherdëina, Badiot) soon
    Tosc saral Nadel.
    It'll soon be Christmas.

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