fosc

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Catalan

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Etymology

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

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Adjective

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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 foscdark 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?

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Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Latin fuscus.

Adjective

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fosc

  1. black
    Synonym: niar

Occitan

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Etymology

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

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Adjective

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

  1. dark

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