secco

See also: seccò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian secco (“dry”). Doublet of sec.

Adjective

secco (not comparable)

1. (art) dry

   Secco painting, or painting in secco, is painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, on wet or fresh plaster.

2. (music) dry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance

Noun

secco (plural seccos)

1. (art) A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco.
   • 1987, James Black, Recent Advances in the Conservation and Analysis of Artifacts, page 289:

     The Roman frescoes are generally robust, but the Chinese and Egyptian seccos are inherently weak […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “secco”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsek.ko/
• Rhymes: -ekko
• Hyphenation: séc‧co

Etymology 1

From Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

Adjective

secco (feminine secca, masculine plural secchi, feminine plural secche, diminutive secchìno or secchétto)

1. dry

   Synonym: asciutto

   Antonym: bagnato

2. dried

   Synonym: disseccato

3. thin

   Synonyms: magro, snello

   Antonym: grasso

4. sharp

   Synonyms: brusco, asciutto

5. (card games) being the only ones of their suit in a players hand (of cards)

   asso secco ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   asso e cavallo secchi ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Noun

secco m (plural secchi)

1. dryland
2. dryness
3. drought

   Synonym: siccità

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

secco

1. first-person singular present indicative of seccare

Related terms

• secca
• seccamente
• secchezza
• seccaggine
• seccare
• seccume

Anagrams

• Cesco, cosce

Portuguese

Verb

secco

1. first-person singular present indicative of seccar