fosco

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fosco, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque). fusco is a doublet.

Adjective

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

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fuscus (“dark, dim”). Compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque.

Pronunciation

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

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Adjective

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

1. dark, murky, dusky

   Antonyms: chiaro, luminoso

   • 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], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. 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”)

Derived terms

• foscamente
• foschia

Anagrams

• sfoco, sfocò

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fosco, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque). Doublet of fusco.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfos.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfos.ku/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʃ.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfos.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʃ.ku/

Adjective

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

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

Anagrams

• focos

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. Synonym of hosco

Further reading

• “fosco”, 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