fuco
Italian
Etymology
From Latin fūcus (“drone (male bee)”), cognate with Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfu.ko/
- Rhymes: -uko
- Hyphenation: fù‧co
Noun
fuco m (plural fuchi)
Latin
Etymology
From fūcus (“seaweed, orchil, pretense”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfuː.koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfuː.ko]
Verb
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
Conjugation of fūcō (first conjugation)
Noun
fūcō
- dative/ablative singular of fūcus
References
- “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)