secco

See also: seccò

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian secco (“dry”). Doublet of sec.

Adjective

secco (not comparable)

  1. (art) dry
    Secco painting, or painting in secco, is painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, on wet or fresh plaster.
  2. (music) dry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance

Noun

secco (plural seccos)

  1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Etymology 2

Clipping of section commander +‎ -o.

Noun

secco (plural seccos)

  1. (Australia, military) Section commander, an infantry soldier responsible for about 8 other soldiers.

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian secco (literally “dry”), from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

Adverb

secco (plural secco-secco)

  1. (art) secco: A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsek.ko/
  • Rhymes: -ekko
  • Hyphenation: séc‧co

Etymology 1

From Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

Adjective

secco (feminine secca, masculine plural secchi, feminine plural secche, diminutive secchìno or secchétto)

  1. dry
    Synonym: asciutto
    Antonym: bagnato
  2. dried
    Synonym: disseccato
  3. thin
    Synonyms: magro, snello
    Antonym: grasso
  4. sharp
    Synonyms: brusco, asciutto
  5. (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

secco m (plural secchi)

  1. dryland
  2. dryness
  3. drought
    Synonym: siccità

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

secco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of seccare

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Adjective

secco (feminine secca, masculine plural seccos, feminine plural seccas)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of seco.

Etymology 2

Verb

secco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of seccar
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