"fosco" meaning in Italian

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈfo.sko/ Audio: LL-Q652 (ita)-LangPao-fosco.wav Forms: fosca [feminine], foschi [masculine, plural], fosche [feminine, plural]
Rhymes: -osko Etymology: From Latin fuscus (“dark, dim”). Compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque. Etymology templates: {{inh|it|la|fuscus|t=dark, dim}} Latin fuscus (“dark, dim”), {{cog|es|hosco}} Spanish hosco, {{cog|pt|fosco}} Portuguese fosco, {{cog|ca|fosc}} Catalan fosc, {{cog|fro|fusque}} Old French fusque Head templates: {{it-adj}} fosco (feminine fosca, masculine plural foschi, feminine plural fosche)
  1. dark, murky, dusky
    Sense id: en-fosco-it-adj-P-Js7aLh
  2. (weather) dull, overcast Categories (topical): Weather, Greys Synonyms: nebbioso, brumoso
    Sense id: en-fosco-it-adj-N~0XX~t- Disambiguation of Greys: 29 47 24 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 32 64 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 19 74 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 80 6 Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences, weather
  3. (figurative) gloomy; sad Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-fosco-it-adj-t3ENdmUV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: foscamente, foschia

Inflected forms

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      "name": "inh"
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      "expansion": "Portuguese fosco",
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      },
      "expansion": "Catalan fosc",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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        "2": "fusque"
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      "expansion": "Old French fusque",
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          "word": "chiaro"
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          "english": "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.",
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "Non fronda verde, ma di color fosco; / non rami schietti, ma nodosi e ’nvolti; / non pomi v’eran, ma stecchi con tòsco.",
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          "english": "(literally, “to paint in dark colors”)",
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