fosco

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese fosco, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque).

Adjective

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fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)

  1. not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin fuscus (dark, dim).[1] Compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfo.sko/
  • Rhymes: -osko
  • Hyphenation: fó‧sco
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

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fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foschi, feminine plural fosche)

  1. dark, murky, dusky
    Antonyms: chiaro, luminoso
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎[1], lines 4–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 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.
  2. (weather) dull, overcast
    Synonyms: nebbioso, brumoso
  3. (figurative) gloomy; sad
    dipingere a tinte fosche
    to paint a gloomy picture
    (literally, “to paint in dark colors”)

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ fosco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese fosco, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque). Doublet of fusco.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)

  1. matte, not shiny (having a matte finish or no particular luster)

Anagrams

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfosko/ [ˈfos.ko]
  • Rhymes: -osko
  • Syllabification: fos‧co

Adjective

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fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)

  1. Synonym of hosco

Further reading

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