fosc
Catalan
editEtymology
editInherited from Latin fuscus. Compare Occitan fosc, Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco or Italian fosco, Old French fusque.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editfosc (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscs or foscos, feminine plural fosques)
- dark (having an absolute or relative lack of light)
- (of a color) dark (dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light)
- Antonym: clar
- verd fosc ― dark green
- dark (conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak)
- 2019 February 13, Time Out Barcelona[1], page 8, column Sèries:
- No es pot ser inspector de policia sense tenir un passat fosc? Sense que se't mori un fill?
- Can't you be a police inspector without having a dark past? Without your child dying?
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “fosc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fosc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “fosc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fosc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dalmatian
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editAdjective
editfosc
Occitan
editEtymology
editFrom Old Occitan fosc, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco, Italian fosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque).
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Adjective
editfosc m (feminine singular fosca, masculine plural fosques, feminine plural foscas)
Synonyms
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