verb transitive intransitive

fusco

2nd PP fuscāre · 3rd PP fuscāvi · 4th PP fuscātum · conj. 1st

to make dark; swarthy; dusky poetic

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

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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.—

figuratively •

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

Neutr; to become dark; swarthy •

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

Perseus ID: n19140 Key: fusco