fosco
Galician
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese fosco, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque).
Adjective
editfosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin fuscus (“dark, dim”).[1] Compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editfosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foschi, feminine plural fosche)
- dark, murky, dusky
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 4–6; 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:
- (weather) dull, overcast
- (figurative) gloomy; sad
- dipingere a tinte fosche
- to paint a gloomy picture
- (literally, “to paint in dark colors”)
Derived terms
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editPortuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese fosco, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque). Doublet of fusco.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
editfosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)
Anagrams
editSpanish
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editfosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)
- Synonym of hosco
Further reading
edit- “fosco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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