tosco

tosco

See also: Tosco

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin Tuscus (“Etruscan”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toschi, feminine plural tosche)

1. (archaic) Tuscan (of, from or relating to Tuscany)

Noun

tosco m (plural toschi)

1. (archaic) Tuscan (native or inhabitant of Tuscany) (male or of unspecified gender)
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Inferno [Hell]”, in La divina commedia [The Divine Comedy]‎, 1st edition, Foligno: Printed by Johannes Numeister and Evangelista Mei, published 1472, Canto X, lines 22-23:

     O toſco che per la cipta del foco ¶ uiuo ten uai coſi parlando honeſto […]

     «O Tuscan, thou who through the city of fire ¶ goest alive, thus speaking modestly […] »

Related terms

• toscano

Etymology 2

Poetic alteration of tossico (“poisonous substance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.sko/
• Rhymes: -ɔsko
• Hyphenation: tò‧sco

Noun

tosco m (plural toschi)

1. (obsolete, poetic) poison, harmful substance

   Synonym: veleno

   • 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.

Anagrams

• costo, costò, scoto, scoto-

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin tŭscus (“Etruscan, Tuscan”), in the context of Vicus Tuscus in Rome, whose inhabitants had a bad reputation.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtos.ku/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtoʃ.ku/

Adjective

tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toscos, feminine plural toscas)

1. (of stone) unpolished

   Synonym: bruto

   Antonyms: lapidado, lavrado

2. (by extension, of an object) rough; raw; coarse; crude

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grosseiro

3. (of a person) uncouth; rude
4. (slang) lame; boring

Derived terms

• toscamente

Further reading

• “tosco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “tosco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tuscus (“Etruscan, Tuscan”), from Vicus Tuscus (the dwellers of Vicus Tuscus in Rome had a bad reputation).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtosko/ [ˈt̪os.ko]
• Rhymes: -osko
• Syllabification: tos‧co

Adjective

tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toscos, feminine plural toscas)

1. crude
2. uncouth
3. coarse, rough, rough around the edges

Derived terms

• tosquedad

Further reading

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