tosc

Inherited from Latin tuscus. Compare Friulian tosc.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈtosk]

tosc (feminine tosca, masculine plural toscs or toscos, feminine plural tosques)

1. crude

   Synonyms: rude, rústec

2. coarse

   Synonym: inculte

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• “tosc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tosc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin tuscus (“Etruscan”), in the context of Vicus Tuscus in Rome, whose inhabitants had a bad reputation. Compare Venetian tosco (“boor”), Spanish tosco (“crude, rough, uncouth”), Catalan tosc (“rough, coarse”), compare also Albanian toskë.

tosc

1. equivocal, shady

tosc

1. (Gherdëina, Badiot) soon

   Tosc saral Nadel.

   It'll soon be Christmas.

• tost (Fascian)