tosc

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tuscus. Compare Friulian tosc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈtosk]

Adjective

tosc (feminine tosca, masculine plural toscs or toscos, feminine plural tosques)

1. crude

   Synonyms: rude, rústec

2. coarse

   Synonym: inculte

Derived terms

• tosquedat

Further reading

• “tosc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tosc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin tuscus (“Etruscan”), in the context of Vicus Tuscus in Rome, whose inhabitants had a bad reputation. Compare Venetian tosco (“boor”), Spanish tosco (“crude, rough, uncouth”), Catalan tosc (“rough, coarse”), compare also Albanian toskë.

Adjective

tosc

1. equivocal, shady

Ladin

Adverb

tosc

1. (Gherdëina, Badiot) soon

   Tosc saral Nadel.

   It'll soon be Christmas.

Alternative forms

• tost (Fascian)