tosco
Appearance
See also: Tosco
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin Tuscus (“Etruscan”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toschi, feminine plural tosche)
Noun
[edit]tosco m (plural toschi)
- (archaic) Tuscan (native or inhabitant of Tuscany) (male or of unspecified gender)
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 22–23; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- O tosco che per la cipta del foco / vivo ten vai così parlando honesto […]
- O Tuscan, thou who through the city of fire / goest alive, thus speaking modestly […]
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- tósco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Albanian toskë (“Tosk”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toschi, feminine plural tosche)
References
[edit]- tòsco1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tosco m (plural toschi)
- Poetic form of tossico (“poison, harmful substance”)
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell][3], lines 4–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][4], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
References
[edit]- tòsco2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin tŭscus (“Etruscan, Tuscan”), in the context of Vicus Tuscus in Rome, whose inhabitants had a bad reputation.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toscos, feminine plural toscas)
- (of stone) unpolished
- (by extension, of an object) rough; raw; coarse; crude
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grosseiro
- (of a person) uncouth; rude
- (colloquial) lame; boring
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “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
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin tuscus (literally “Etruscan, Tuscan”), from Vicus Tuscus (“Etruscan Street”) (the dwellers of Vicus Tuscus in Rome had a bad reputation).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toscos, feminine plural toscas)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Sicilian: toscu
Further reading
[edit]- “tosco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983) “tosco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 565
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “9013. *tŭscus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 686
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- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/osko
- Rhymes:Italian/osko/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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- it:Demonyms
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Male people
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- Italian terms borrowed from Albanian
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔsko
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔsko/2 syllables
- Italian poetic terms
- Portuguese terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/osku
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/oʃku
- Rhymes:Portuguese/oʃku/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
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- Spanish terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
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- Rhymes:Spanish/osko
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- Spanish lemmas
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