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fusco

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Galician

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin fuscus; Doublet of fosco.

Adjective

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fusco (feminine fusca, masculine plural fuscos, feminine plural fuscas)

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

Noun

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fusco m (plural fuscos)

  1. dusk

Latin

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Etymology

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From fuscus (dark, swarthy, dusky) +‎ .

Pronunciation

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Verb

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fuscō (present infinitive fuscāre, perfect active fuscāvī, supine fuscātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive) to make dark, swarthy or dusky; blacken, darken
  2. (intransitive) to become dark or swarthy

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Spanish: fuscar

Adjective

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fuscō

  1. inflection of fuscus:
    1. dative masculine/neuter/neuter singular
    2. ablative masculine singular

References

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  • fusco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fusco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fusco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin fuscus; doublet of fosco.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -usku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -uʃku
  • Hyphenation: fus‧co

Adjective

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fusco (feminine fusca, masculine plural fuscos, feminine plural fuscas)

  1. dark (color/colour)
    Synonyms: escuro, pardo
  2. (figurative) sad
    Synonym: triste

Derived terms

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