The corpus record — Latin

fusco

fusco · v. a

to make dark

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Where it lives

Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

fusco — Lewis & Short

fusco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.id..

I Act., to make dark, swarthy, dusky, to blacken, darken (poet.).

A Lit.: fuscentur corpora campo, Ov. A. A. 1, 513: cutem pingui olivo, Stat. Th. 6, 576: lactea pocula sanguine puniceo (Massagetae), id. Achil. 1, 307: malas (lanugo), Luc. 10, 135; cf. dentes (inertia), Ov. A. A. 3, 197: diem (nube), Val. Fl. 1, 396; cf. Sil. 11, 270.—

B Trop.: quem ad hoc aevi nulla actuum culpa fuscavit, Symm. Ep. 1, 34; Sid. Carm. 7, 505.—*

II Neutr., to become dark or swarthy: ne pulchrae fuscaret gratia formae, Stat. S. 3, 4, 66.

In the wild

fuscabat Silius Italicus, Punica 11.268
fuscabatque Ovid, Tristia 1.11.15
fuscante Lucan, Pharsalia 10.135
fuscentur Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.513
fuscatis Silius Italicus, Punica 14.345
fuscat Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.505

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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