fuscus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-, see also furvus, Old Irish donn (“dark”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”)). More at dye, dust, dusk.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfus.kus/, [ˈfʊs.kʊs]

Adjective

fuscus (feminine fusca, neuter fuscum); first/second declension

1. dark, black
2. (of the voice) husky, hoarse

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	fuscus	fusca	fuscum		fuscī	fuscae	fusca
genitive	fuscī	fuscae	fuscī		fuscōrum	fuscārum	fuscōrum
dative	fuscō		fuscō		fuscīs
accusative	fuscum	fuscam	fuscum		fuscōs	fuscās	fusca
ablative	fuscō	fuscā	fuscō		fuscīs
vocative	fusce	fusca	fuscum		fuscī	fuscae	fusca

Synonyms

• (dark, black): āter, niger

Related terms

• fuscitās
• fuscō

Descendants

• Asturian: foscu
• Dalmatian: fosc
• Catalan: fosc, fosca
• Italian: fosco
• Ladin: fosch

• Old French: fusque
• Portuguese: fosco, fusco
• Sicilian: fuscu
• Spanish: hosco

References

• fuscus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fuscus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fuscus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)