Adjective: fosco
Hyphenation: fó‧sco
| Singular m. | fosco |
| Singular f. | fosca |
| Plural m. | foschi |
| Plural f. | fosche |
Sample Sentences
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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.) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 4–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
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dipingere a tinte fosche (to paint a gloomy picture)
Adjectives inflected like fosco
sbieco,
zanzarifugo,
artigianesco,
cavalleresco,
antiscialagogo,
paganesco,
villesco,
gigionesco,
leonesco,
pindaresco,
novecentesco,
duecentesco,
militaresco,
pittoresco,
dottoresco,
bustocco,
avvocatesco,
boccaccesco,
caporalesco,
bacucco, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin fuscus (“dark, dim”). Compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque. See: Latin Adjectives '
fuscus', Spanish Adjectives '
hosco', Portuguese Adjectives '
fosco', Catalan Adjectives '
fosc'.
Verbs referencing "fosco"
Catalan Adjectives
fosc, Spanish Adjectives
hosco.
Translations