fuscus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰus-ko-s (“dark-colored”),[1] (cognate with Proto-Germanic *duskaz), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, seemingly related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-. See also furvus, Proto-Celtic *dusnos, Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”). More at dye, dust.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fuscus (feminine fusca, neuter fuscum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. dark, dim, dimly lit
  2. black, brown
  3. (of the voice) husky, hoarse

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fuscus fusca fuscum fuscī fuscae fusca
Genitive fuscī fuscae fuscī fuscōrum fuscārum fuscōrum
Dative fuscō fuscō fuscīs
Accusative fuscum fuscam fuscum fuscōs fuscās fusca
Ablative fuscō fuscā fuscō fuscīs
Vocative fusce fusca fuscum fuscī fuscae fusca

Synonyms

Descendants
  • Asturian: foscu
  • Dalmatian: fosc
  • Catalan: fosc, fosca
  • Galician: fosco, fusco
  • Italian: fosco
  • Ladin: fosch
  • Old French: fusque
  • Portuguese: fosco, fusco
  • Sicilian: fuscu
  • Spanish: hosco

See also
Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)
     albus, candidus, subalbus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus, blancus (ML.)      glaucus, rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeus, grīseus (ML. or NL.)      niger, āter, piceus, furvus
             ruber, rūbidus, rūfus, rubicundus, russus, rubrīcus, pūniceus, murrinus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius              rutilus, armeniacus, aurantius, aurantiacus; fuscus, suffuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx, castaneus, aquilus, fulvus, brunneus (ML.)              flāvus, sufflāvus, flāvidus, fulvus, lūteus, gilvus, helvus, croceus, pallidus, blondinus (ML.)
             galbus, galbinus, lūridus              viridis              prasinus
             cȳaneus              caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), caesius, blāvus (LL.)              glaucus; līvidus; venetus
             violāceus, ianthinus, balaustīnus (NL.)              ostrīnus, amethystīnus              purpureus, ātropurpureus, roseus, rosāceus

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fuscus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 252

Further reading
  • “fuscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fuscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fuscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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