dusk
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- Stati Uniti//dʌsk//
- //dʊsk//
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
aggettivo
- 1
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.
Etimologia
From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more). Doublet of fuscous.
sostantivo
- 1
The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.
We caught a beautiful view of the dusk.
- 2
A darkish colour.
Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
- 3
The condition of being dusky; duskiness
verbo
- 1
To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
I see the air benighted And all the dusking dales, And lamps in England lighted,
- 2
To make dusk.
After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.
Etimologia
From Middle English dusken, from Old English doxian.
Forme
- plurale
- dusks
- comparativo
- dusker
- superlativo
- duskest
- passato
- dusked
- participio passato
- dusked
- participio presente
- dusking
- 3ª persona singolare
- dusks
dusk · Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
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