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fuscus1

dark-coloured, dusky; (of persons) dark-skinned

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Where it lives

Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Pescennius Niger 3 · 13.18/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Tyranni Triginta 3 · 4.55/10k
Suasoriae 4 · 3.89/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Epigrammata 16 · 2.84/10k
Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. fuscus — de Vaan

fuscus 'dark-coloured, dusky; (of persons) dark-skinned' [adj. o/a] (Varro+) Derivatives: infuscare 4to darken; contaminate' (P1.+). Pit *fusko-. PIE *dhus-ko- 'dark-coloured'. The suffix *-ko- was used, among others, to indicate physical properties of people: cascus, mancus. Hence, EM suppose that fuscus, as opposed to furvus, was originally used for this purpose. BibL: WH I: 572, EM 263, IEW 268-271. ^furvus -futo — [de Vaan, s.v. fuscus, p. 266]

2. fuscus — Lewis & Short

fuscus, a, um, adj.for fur-scus; cf. furvus, v. Georg Curtius Gr. Etym. p. 304,

I dark, swarthy, dusky, tawny (class.; cf.: pullus, niger): purpura plebeia ac paene fusca, Cic. Sest. 8, 19: cornix, id. poët. Div. 1, 8, 14: illi sint comites fusci, quos India torret, Tib. 2, 3, 55; cf. Andromede, Ov. H. 15, 36: Hydaspes, Hor. S. 2, 8, 14; also transf.: Syene, Mart. 9, 36, 7: nubila, Ov. M. 5, 286; cf.: alae noctis, Verg. A. 8, 369; and transf.: amictus (somni), Tib. 3, 4, 55: Falerna, Mart. 2, 40, 6.—Comp.: altera (fraxinus), brevis, durior fusciorque, Plin. 16, 13, 24, § 63: laterna, i. e. dark, Mart. 14, 62.—As denoting misfortune: fuscis avibus Larissam accessi, App. M. 2, 124.—

B Transf., of the voice, indistinct, husky, hoarse (opp. candidus): et vocis genera permulta: candidum (al. canorum) fuscum, leve asperum, grave acutum, etc., Cic. N. D. 2, 58, 146 Mos. and Orell. N. cr.; cf.: est (vox) et candida et fusca et plena et exilis, etc., Quint. 11, 3, 15; Plin. 28, 6, 16, § 58: hic etiam fusca illa vox, qualem, etc., Quint. 11, 3, 171 (for which Cic. Brut. 38, 141, subrauca).

3. Fuscus — Lewis & Short

Fuscus, i, m.,

I a Roman surname; e. g.,

1 Aristius Fuscus, an intimate friend of Horace; v. Aristius.—

2 Fuscus, a soldier, courtier, and sensualist of the time of Domitian, Tac. H. 2, 86; Mart. 6, 76; Juv. 4, 112.—

II Deriv.: Fuscī-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Fuscus: explicationes, Sen. Suas. 4 fin.

In the wild

fusca Martial, Epigrammata 6.58.4
Fusce Martial, Epigrammata 1.54.1
fuscis Silius Italicus, Punica 3.524
Fusci Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 10.pr.13
fuscum Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.146
fusco Ovid, Fasti 2.314

6 of 120 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. fuscus (scan pp. 266-267; entry #664). Root candidates: *fusko-.

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