fuscus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰus-ko-s (“dark-colored”), (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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfus.kus/, [ˈfʊs̠kʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfus.kus/, [ˈfuskus]

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

• (dark, black): āter, niger

Related terms

• fuscitās
• fuscō

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

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.