fresco

fresco

See also: Fresco

English

A fresco in Toledo, Spain.

Etymology

From Italian fresco, from Medieval Latin friscus, from Frankish *frisk, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz. Doublet of fresh.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɛskoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɛskəʊ/

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• Rhymes: (General American) -ɛskoʊ, (Received Pronunciation) -ɛskəʊ
• Hyphenation: fre‧sco

Noun

fresco (countable and uncountable, plural frescos or frescoes)

1. (countable) A cool, refreshing state of the air; coolness, duskiness, shade.
   • a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Hans Carvel”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, OCLC 491256769, page 124:

     […] I [Satan] cannot ſtay / Flaring in ſun-ſhine all the day: / For, entre nous, we helliſh ſprites, / Love more the freſco of the nights; […]

2. (countable, painting) An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster.
3. (uncountable, painting) The technique used to make such an artwork.

Translations

cool, refreshing state of the air

artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster

Afrikaans: muurskildery, fresko Armenian: որմնանկար (hy) (ormnankar) Asturian: frescu m Bulgarian: фреска (bg) f (freska) Catalan: fresc (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 濕壁畫／湿壁画 Czech: freska (cs) f Danish: freske (da) c, fresko c, freskomaleri n Dutch: fresco (nl) n Esperanto: fresko Finnish: fresko (fi) French: fresque (fr) f Galician: fresco (gl) m Georgian: ფრესკა (ka) (presḳa) German: Fresko (de) n, Freske (de) f Greek: νωπογραφία (el) f (nopografía) Hungarian: freskó (hu) Italian: affresco (it) m Japanese: フレスコ (furesuko) Korean: 프레스코 (peureseuko) Macedonian: фре́ска f (fréska) Norwegian: Bokmål: fresko m Nynorsk: fresko m Polish: fresk (pl) m, al fresco (pl) n Portuguese: afresco (pt) m Romanian: frescă (ro) f Russian: фре́ска (ru) f (fréska) Spanish: fresco (es) m Swedish: fresk (sv) c, freskomålning (sv) c Turkish: fresk (tr)

technique used to make such an artwork

Armenian: որմնանկարչություն (hy) (ormnankarčʿutʿyun) Asturian: frescu m Bulgarian: фреско n (fresko) Catalan: fresc (ca) m Dutch: fresco (nl) n Finnish: fresko (fi) French: fresque (fr) f Galician: fresco (gl) m German: Freskomalerei (de) f Greek: νωπογραφία (el) f (nopografía) Hungarian: freskó (hu) Italian: affresco (it) m Macedonian: фре́ска f (fréska) Malay: fresko Polish: fresk (pl) m, al fresco (pl) n Portuguese: afresco (pt) m Romanian: frescă (ro) f Russian: фре́ска (ru) f (fréska) Spanish: fresco (es) m

Verb

fresco (third-person singular simple present frescoes, present participle frescoing, simple past and past participle frescoed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To paint using fresco.

Translations

to paint using fresco

Italian: affrescare (it) Macedonian: фреско́сува (freskósuva), живопи́сува (živopísuva)

See also

• al fresco
• fresco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Cofers, corfes, forces

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Asturian

Adjective

fresco

1. neuter of frescu

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Dutch

Etymology

From Italian fresco, from Medieval Latin friscus, from Frankish *frisk, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz, whence also Dutch vers and fris.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: fres‧co

Noun

fresco n (plural fresco's, diminutive frescootje n)

1. fresco

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese fresco (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a West Germanic language, either directly or through Vulgar Latin friscus, from Frankish *frisk, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz, whence also English fresh.[1]

Fresco, as a painting technique, was taken from Italian fresco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɾeskʊ]

Noun

fresco m (plural frescos, feminine fresca, feminine plural frescas)

1. (uncountable) cool moderate or refreshing state of cold
2. (uncountable, feminine) cool in the morning or in the evening (during the summer)
3. (painting) fresco

Related terms

• ao fresco

Adjective

fresco m (feminine singular fresca, masculine plural frescos, feminine plural frescas)

1. fresh, recent, young, rested
   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., p. 657:

     Et cada dia, depoys que esto fezo, parouse sua cara et seu corpo mays fresco

     And everyday, after doing this, his face and his body were younger

   • 1434, M. Lucas Alvarez & M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 350:

     E non enperqua o "septe rogo", que se borrou estando fresquo, que paresçe que foy raydo

     and [whoever reads this text] don't mistrust the "septe rogo", because it faded when fresh, although it looks as it was deleted

2. untransformed, not artificiality preserved (meat, fish)
   • 1291, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, p. 79:

     La quartillos de salgada et xx quartillos de fresca [...] et disso que da fresca marmara iiii quartillos ao salgar

     50 quarters of salted [fish] and 20 quarters of fresh [fish] [...] and he said that the fresh one diminished 4 quarter after salting

3. cool (temperature)
4. impertinent

Derived terms

• Fresco
• frescoallo (“fresh meat characteristic smell”)
• frescor (“freshness”)
• frescura (“freshness”)
• fresqueira
• fresquío (“fresh meat characteristic smell”)
• refrescar (“to cool; to refresh”)

 

Further reading

• “fresco” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

References

• “fresco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fresc” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “fresco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “fresco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fresco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “fresco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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Interlingua

Noun

fresco (plural frescos)

1. fresco (painting)

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Italian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin friscus, frescus, from Lombardic frisc, from Proto-West Germanic *frisk, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *preysk-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfre.sko/
• Rhymes: -esko
• Hyphenation: fré‧sco

Adjective

fresco (feminine fresca, masculine plural freschi, feminine plural fresche, superlative freschissimo)

1. fresh
2. cool
3. wet, fresh (of paint)

   Antonym: asciutto

Noun

fresco m (plural freschi)

1. coolness, freshness, cool
2. light wool material
3. (informal) cooler (prison)

   stare al fresco ― to be in the cooler

Antonyms

• caldo

Related terms

• affrescare
• al fresco
• freschezza
• frescura

 

Descendants

• → Asturian: frescu
• → Bulgarian: фреско (fresko)
• → Dutch: fresco
• → English: fresco
• → Galician: fresco
• → Hungarian: freskó
• → Malay: fresko
• → Danish: fresko
• → Esperanto: fresko
• → German: Fresko
• → Japanese: フレスコ (furesuko)
• → Korean: 프레스코 (peureseuko)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: fresko
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: fresko
• → Spanish: fresco

Anagrams

• scrofe

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese fresco, from Medieval Latin frescus, friscus, from Frankish *frisk, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *preysk-.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾes.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾes.ku/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾeʃ.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾes.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾeʃ.ku/

• Hyphenation: fres‧co

Adjective

fresco (feminine fresca, masculine plural frescos, feminine plural frescas)

1. fresh (new or clean)
2. (of plant material) fresh (of produce, not from storage)
3. cool (having a slightly low temperature)
4. (slang) fussy (tending to complain about petty details)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *friscus (also found in Medieval Latin), from Proto-West Germanic *frisk, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *preysk-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾesko/ [ˈfɾes.ko]

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• Rhymes: -esko
• Syllabification: fres‧co

Adjective

fresco (feminine fresca, masculine plural frescos, feminine plural frescas)

1. fresh
2. cool (temperature)
3. cheeky

   Synonym: insolente

Noun

fresco m (plural frescos)

1. (weather) strong breeze
2. fresco (painting)
3. (Bolivia, Central America, Ecuador, Peru) soda, soft drink

Derived terms

• agua fresca
• aire fresco
• al fresco
• estar más fresco que una lechuga
• estar más fresco que una rosa
• frescachón
• frescor
• frescura
• fresquito
• leche fresca
• quedarse tan fresco
• queso fresco
• refrescar
• traer al fresco

 

Descendants

• → Belizean Creole: fresko

Further reading

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