secco
See also: seccò
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian secco (“dry”). Doublet of sec.
Adjective edit
secco (not comparable)
- (art) dry
- Secco painting, or painting in secco, is painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, on wet or fresh plaster.
- (music) dry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance
Noun edit
secco (plural seccos)
- (art) A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco.
- 1987, James Black, Recent Advances in the Conservation and Analysis of Artifacts, page 289:
- The Roman frescoes are generally robust, but the Chinese and Egyptian seccos are inherently weak […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “secco”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.
Adjective edit
secco (feminine secca, masculine plural secchi, feminine plural secche, diminutive secchìno or secchétto)
- dry
- dried
- Synonym: disseccato
- thin
- sharp
- (card games) being the only ones of their suit in a players hand (of cards)
- asso secco ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- asso e cavallo secchi ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Noun edit
secco m (plural secchi)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
secco
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