fuscus – Latin adjective declension

Adjective: fuscus
Hyphenation:

Declension: First, Second

Nominative

Singular masc.	fuscus
Singular fem.	fusca
Singular neut.	fuscum
Plural masc.	fuscī
Plural fem.	fuscae
Plural neut.	fusca

Genitive

Singular masc.	fuscī
Singular fem.	fuscae
Singular neut.	fuscī
Plural masc.	fuscōrum
Plural fem.	fuscārum
Plural neut.	fuscōrum

Dative

Singular masc.	fuscō
Singular fem.	fuscae
Singular neut.	fuscō
Plural masc.	fuscīs
Plural fem.	fuscīs
Plural neut.	fuscīs

Accusative

Singular masc.	fuscum
Singular fem.	fuscam
Singular neut.	fuscum
Plural masc.	fuscōs
Plural fem.	fuscās
Plural neut.	fusca

Ablative

Singular masc.	fuscō
Singular fem.	fuscā
Singular neut.	fuscō
Plural masc.	fuscīs
Plural fem.	fuscīs
Plural neut.	fuscīs

Vocative

Singular masc.	fusce
Singular fem.	fusca
Singular neut.	fuscum
Plural masc.	fuscī
Plural fem.	fuscae
Plural neut.	fusca

Comparison

Sample Sentences

Alter unguentis adfluens, calamistrata coma, despiciens conscios stuprorum ac veteres vexatores aetatulae suae, puteali et faeneratorum gregibus inflatus, a quibus compulsus olim, ne in Scyllaeo illo aeris alieni tamquam fretu ad columnam adhaeresceret, in tribunatus portum perfugerat, contemnebat equites Romanos, minitabatur senatui, venditabat se operis atque ab iis se ereptum ne de ambitu causam diceret praedicabat, ab isdemque se etiam invito senatu provinciam sperare dicebat; eamque nisi adeptus esset, se incolumem nullo modo fore arbitrabatur. Alter, o di boni, quam taeter incedebat, quam truculentus, quam terribilis aspectu! unum aliquem te ex barbatis illis, exemplum imperi veteris, imaginem antiquitatis, columen rei publicae diceres intueri. Vestitus aspere nostra hac purpura plebeia ac paene fusca, capillo ita horrido ut Capua, in qua ipsa tum imaginis ornandae causa duumviratum gerebat, Seplasiam sublaturus videretur. Nam quid ego de supercilio dicam, quod tum hominibus non supercilium, sed pignus rei publicae videbatur? Tanta erat gravitas in oculo, tanta contractio frontis, ut illo supercilio annus ille niti tamquam videretur. (1958 translation by R. Gardner

Here is one of them. Dripping with unguents, with waved hair, looking down on the partners of his debaucheries and the greybeard abusers of his dainty youth, puffed up with rage against the Exchange { Puteal } and the herds of usurers, who had once driven him to take refuge in the harbour of a tribunate from the danger of being stuck up on the Column in a sea of debt as in those Straits of Scylla, he spoke with contempt of the Roman knights, he threatened the Senate, he ingratiated himself with hired ruffians, and boasted that they had saved him from standing his trial on a charge of bribery, he said that he hoped they would also help him to a province, Senate or no Senate, and if he failed to get it he thought nothing could save him. The other - good heavens! see him marching along - how repulsive, how fierce, how terrible he was to look at! You would have thought you saw one of our bearded forefathers, a perfect specimen of the old regime, a mirror of antiquity, a pillar of the State. Coarsely clad in our common purple, almost in black, with hair in such a tangle that at Capua, where he was then in office as duumvir in order to add another honour to his list, he looked as if he meant to carry off the Seplasia with him. And what am I to say of his eyebrow, which then did not seem to men to be a high brow, but a guarantee for the State ? There was such a solemnity in his eye, there were such wrinkles in his forehead, that this eyebrow seemed to be sponsor for the year's security.) [56 BCE, Cicero, Pro Sestio 19.6]
quid tum, sī fuscus Amyntās? / et nigrae uiolae sunt et uaccīnia nigra (What then, if Amyntas is swarthy? Violets are black too, and irises are black.) [c. 41 BCE – 39 BCE, Vergilius, Eclogae 10.38]

Adjectives inflected like fuscus

palmātus, rēctangulus, ursīnus, palmōsus, negātōrius, Cimmerius, fēlīnus, deltoīdeus, flūctifragus, Colōnēus, recordātīvus, erēmīticus, nūnciātōrius, idōneus, carcinophagus, servus, sentus, imāginōsus, chelīdonius, foetulentus, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
4. Proto-Indo-European *dʰus-ko-sder.
5. Latin fuscus
6. 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.

Verbs referencing "fuscus"

English Adjectives dusk, Galician Adjectives fosco, Italian Adjectives fosco, Portuguese Adjectives fosco, Catalan Adjectives fosc, Spanish Adjectives hosco.