tosco

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin Tuscus (“Etruscan”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈto.sko/
  • Rhymes: -osko
  • Hyphenation: tó‧sco

Adjective

tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toschi, feminine plural tosche)

  1. (archaic) Tuscan (of, from or relating to Tuscany)

Noun

tosco m (plural toschi)

  1. (archaic) Tuscan (native or inhabitant of Tuscany) (male or of unspecified gender)
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 22–23; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      O tosco che per la cipta del foco / vivo ten vai così parlando honesto […]
      O Tuscan, thou who through the city of fire / goest alive, thus speaking modestly

References

  • tósco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Albanian toskë (“Tosk”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toschi, feminine plural tosche)

  1. Tosk (southern Albanian)

References

  • tòsco1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

tosco m (plural toschi)

  1. Poetic form of tossico (“poison, harmful substance”)
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 4–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Non fronda verde, ma di color fosco; / non rami schietti, ma nodosi e ’nvolti; / non pomi v’eran, ma stecchi con tòsco.
      Not green foliage green, but of a dusky color; not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertangled; there were not apple-trees, but thorns with poison.

References

  • tòsco2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin tŭscus (“Etruscan, Tuscan”), in the context of Vicus Tuscus in Rome, whose inhabitants had a bad reputation.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -osku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -oʃku
  • Hyphenation: tos‧co

Adjective

tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toscos, feminine plural toscas)

  1. (of stone) unpolished
    Synonym: bruto
    Antonyms: lapidado, lavrado
  2. (by extension, of an object) rough; raw; coarse; crude
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grosseiro
  3. (of a person) uncouth; rude
  4. (colloquial) lame; boring

Derived terms

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin tuscus (literally “Etruscan, Tuscan”), from Vicus Tuscus (“Etruscan Street”) (the dwellers of Vicus Tuscus in Rome had a bad reputation).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtosko/
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -osko
  • Syllabification: tos‧co

Adjective

tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toscos, feminine plural toscas)

  1. crude
  2. uncouth
    Synonym: bruto
  3. coarse, rough, rough around the edges

Derived terms

Descendants

Sicilian: toscu

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