fosc

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fuscus. Compare Occitan fosc, Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco or Italian fosco, Old French fusque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfosk]

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Adjective

fosc (feminine fosca, masculine plural foscs or foscos, feminine plural fosques)

1. dark (having an absolute or relative lack of light)

   Synonym: obscur

   Antonym: clar

2. (of a color) dark (dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light)

   Antonym: clar

   verd fosc ― dark green

3. 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

• enfosquir
• fosca
• foscament
• foscor
• fosquejar
• matèria fosca

 

Further reading

• “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

Etymology

From Latin fuscus.

Adjective

fosc

1. black

   Synonym: niar

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan fosc, from Latin fuscus (compare Spanish hosco, Portuguese fosco, fusco, Italian fosco, Catalan fosc, Old French fusque).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

fosc m (feminine singular fosca, masculine plural fosques, feminine plural foscas)

1. dark

Synonyms

• escur