fosco

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Catalan fosc, Old French fusque).

fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)

1. not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster

From Latin fuscus (“dark, dim”).[1] Compare Spanish hosco, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), fusco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfo.sko/
• Rhymes: -osko
• Hyphenation: fó‧sco

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fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foschi, feminine plural fosche)

1. (color) dark, murky

   Antonyms: chiaro, luminoso

   • 1314, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno‎, lines 4–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 1994:

     Non fronda verde, ma di color fosco; / non rami schietti, ma nodosi e ’nvolti; / non pomi v’eran, ma stecchi con tòsco.

     Not green foliage green, but of a dusky color; not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertangled; there were not apple-trees, but thorns with poison.

2. (weather) dull, overcast

   Synonyms: nebbioso, brumoso

3. (figurative) gloomy; sad

   dipingere a tinte fosche

   to paint a gloomy picture

   (literally, “to paint in dark colors”)

• foscamente
• foschia

• sfoco, sfocò

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque). Doublet of fusco.

fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)

1. matte, not shiny (having a matte finish or no particular luster)

• focos

• IPA^(key): /ˈfosko/ [ˈfos.ko]
• Rhymes: -osko
• Syllabification: fos‧co

fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)

1. Synonym of hosco

• “fosco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014