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fusco
fusco
Latin
Verb
fuscō (present infinitive fuscāre, perfect active fuscāvī, supine fuscātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) I make dark, swarthy or dusky; blacken, darken.
- (intransitive) I become dark or swarthy.
Inflection
Derived terms
Related terms
- fuscitās
- fuscus
Descendants
- Spanish: fuscar
References
- 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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fusco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, Italian fosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfuʃ.ku/
- Hyphenation: fus‧co
Adjective
fusco m (feminine singular fusca, masculine plural fuscos, feminine plural fuscas, comparable)
- dark-coloured