fuscus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-, see also furvus, Old Irish donn (“dark”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”)). More at dye, dust, dusk.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfus.kus/, [ˈfʊs.kʊs]
Adjective
fuscus (feminine fusca, neuter fuscum); first/second declension
- dark, dim, dimly lit
- black, brown
- (of the voice) husky, hoarse
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | fuscus | fusca | fuscum | fuscī | fuscae | fusca | |
| Genitive | fuscī | fuscae | fuscī | fuscōrum | fuscārum | fuscōrum | |
| Dative | fuscō | fuscō | fuscīs | ||||
| Accusative | fuscum | fuscam | fuscum | fuscōs | fuscās | fusca | |
| Ablative | fuscō | fuscā | fuscō | fuscīs | |||
| Vocative | fusce | fusca | fuscum | fuscī | fuscae | fusca | |
Synonyms
- (dark, black): āter, niger
Related terms
- fuscitās
- fuscō
Descendants
- Asturian: foscu
- Dalmatian: fosc
- Catalan: fosc, fosca
- Galician: fosco, fusco
- Italian: fosco
- Ladin: fosch
- Old French: fusque
- Portuguese: fosco, fusco
- Sicilian: fuscu
- Spanish: hosco
References
- fuscus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fuscus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fuscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette