fosco

From Old Portuguese fosco, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque).

fosco m or f (plural foscos)

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

From Latin fuscus (“dark, dim”).[1] Compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfo.sko/
• Rhymes: -osko
• Hyphenation: fó‧sco

fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foschi, feminine plural fosche)

1. (color) dark, murky

   Antonyms: chiaro, luminoso

   • early 14^th century, Dante, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno, lines 4–6:

     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.

2. (weather) dull, overcast

   Synonyms: nebbioso, brumoso

3. (figurative) gloomy; sad

   dipingere a tinte fosche

   to paint a gloomy picture

   (literally, “to paint in dark colors”)

• foscamente
• foschia

• sfoco, sfocò

From Old Portuguese fosco, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque). Doublet of fusco.

fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)

1. mattee, not shiny (having a matte finish or no particular luster)

• focos

fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscos, feminine plural foscas)

1. Synonym of hosco

• “fosco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014