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Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin Tuscus (“Etruscan”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toschi, feminine plural tosche)
Noun[edit]
tosco m (plural toschi)
- (archaic) Tuscan (native or inhabitant of Tuscany) (male or of unspecified gender)
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 22–23; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- O tosco che per la cipta del foco / vivo ten vai così parlando honesto […]
- O Tuscan, thou who through the city of fire / goest alive, thus speaking modestly […]
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- tósco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Albanian toskë (“Tosk”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toschi, feminine plural tosche)
References[edit]
- tòsco1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 3[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tosco m (plural toschi)
- Poetic form of tossico (“poison, harmful substance”)
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell][3], lines 4–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][4], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
References[edit]
- tòsco2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin tŭscus (“Etruscan, Tuscan”), in the context of Vicus Tuscus in Rome, whose inhabitants had a bad reputation.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toscos, feminine plural toscas)
- (of stone) unpolished
- (by extension, of an object) rough; raw; coarse; crude
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:grosseiro
- (of a person) uncouth; rude
- (colloquial) lame; boring
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “tosco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- “tosco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Vulgar Latin tuscus (literally “Etruscan, Tuscan”), from Vicus Tuscus (“Etruscan Street”) (the dwellers of Vicus Tuscus in Rome had a bad reputation).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tosco (feminine tosca, masculine plural toscos, feminine plural toscas)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “tosco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983) “tosco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 565
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “9013. *tŭscus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 686
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- Rhymes:Italian/osko
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- it:Demonyms
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔsko
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/osku
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/oʃku
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- Rhymes:Spanish/osko
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