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fuco
fuco
See also: fuço
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
- I colour, paint, dye
- I embellish, dissemble, falsify
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Cicero, Pro Murena
- Isdem ineptiis fucata sunt illa omnia.
- Everything was painted over with the same foolishness.
- Isdem ineptiis fucata sunt illa omnia.
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Cicero, Pro Murena
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)
- without any disguise, frankly: sine fuco ac fallaciis (Att. 1. 1. 1)