fuco
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin fūcus (“drone bee”), cognate with Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fuco m (plural fuchi)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From fūcus (“seaweed, orchil, pretense”) + -ō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfuː.koː/, [ˈfuːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfu.ko/, [ˈfuːko]
Verb edit
fūcō (present infinitive fūcāre, perfect active fūcāvī, supine fūcātum); first conjugation
- to colour, paint, dye
- to embellish, dissemble, falsify
- Cicero, Pro Murena
- Isdem ineptiis fucata sunt illa omnia.
- Everything was painted over with the same foolishness.
- Isdem ineptiis fucata sunt illa omnia.
- Cicero, Pro Murena
Conjugation edit
Noun edit
fucō
References edit
- “fuco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fuco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fuco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fuco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- without any disguise, frankly: sine fuco ac fallaciis (Att. 1. 1. 1)
- without any disguise, frankly: sine fuco ac fallaciis (Att. 1. 1. 1)