tosco

See also: Tosco

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

Noun

tosco m (plural toschi)

1. (archaic) a person from or an inhabitant of Tuscany
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Inferno [Hell]”, in La divina commedia [The Divine Comedy]‎^[1], 1st edition, Foligno: Printed by Johannes Numeister and Evangelista Mei, published 1472, Canto X, lines 22-23:

     O toſco che per la cipta del foco ¶ uiuo ten uai coſi parlando honeſto […]

     «O Tuscan, thou who through the city of fire ¶ goest alive, thus speaking modestly […] »

Related terms

• toscano

Etymology 2

Poetic alteration of tossico (“poisonous substance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.sko/
• Rhymes: -ɔsko
• Hyphenation: tò‧sco

Noun

tosco m (plural toschi)

1. (obsolete, poetic) poison, harmful substance

   Synonym: veleno

Anagrams

• costo, costò, scoto, scoto-

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtos.ku̥]
• IPA^(key): /ˈtoʃ.ku/

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. (slang) lame; boring

Derived terms

• toscamente

Further reading

• “tosco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• “tosco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tuscus (“Etruscan”), from Vicus Tuscus (the dwellers of Vicus Tuscus in Rome had a bad reputation).

Adjective

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

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

Derived terms

• tosquedad

Further reading

• “tosco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014