fosc

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fuscus. Compare Occitan fosc, Dalmatian fosc, Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco or Italian fosco, Old French fusque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈfusk]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈfosk]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Adjective

fosc (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscs or foscos, feminine plural fosques)

1. dark (having an absolute or relative lack of light)

   Synonym: obscur

   Antonym: clar

2. (of a color) dark (dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light)

   Antonym: clar

   verd fosc ― dark green

3. dark (conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak)
   • 2019 February 13, Time Out Barcelona‎^[1], page 8, column Sèries:

     No es pot ser inspector de policia sense tenir un passat fosc? Sense que se't mori un fill?

     Can't you be a police inspector without having a dark past? Without your child dying?

Derived terms

• enfosquir
• fosca
• foscament
• foscor
• fosquejar
• matèria fosca

Further reading

• “fosc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fosc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “fosc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “fosc”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin fuscus.

Adjective

fosc

1. black

   Synonym: niar

See also

Colors in Dalmatian · colauri (layout · text)

iualb; blanc	canaisa	fosc; niar
ros; crimisain	orangia; broin	zuola; iaur; crema
vert lima	vert	vert menta; vert menta scior; vert scior
cian; azul pitroleo	azul; zelést; zelést scior	blu; blu scior
viola; indaic	cris; purpura	ruosa

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan fosc, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco, Italian fosco, Dalmatian fosc, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

Adjective

fosc m (feminine singular fosca, masculine plural fosques, feminine plural foscas)

1. dark

Synonyms

• escur