Italian

Noun

fuco m ‎(plural fuchi)

1. drone (male bee)

Latin

Etymology

From fūcus ‎(“seaweed, orchil, pretense”) +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.koː/

Verb

fūcō ‎(present infinitive fūcāre, perfect active fūcāvī, supine fūcātum); first conjugation

1. I colour, paint, dye
2. I embellish, dissemble, falsify
   • Cicero, Pro Murena

     Isdem ineptiis fucata sunt illa omnia.

     Everything was painted over with the same foolishness.

Inflection

References

• fuco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fuco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• FUCO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fuco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • without any disguise, frankly: sine fuco ac fallaciis (Att. 1. 1. 1)