tosco
Portuguese, adjective/ˈtos.ku/
tosco is spelled T-O-S-C-O (5 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,895th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tosco is a Portuguese adjective meaning “unpolished” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que não é lapidado, polido, etc.; bruto, rústico”.
What does tosco mean in English?
adjective
- 1
unpolished
- 2
rough; raw; coarse; crude
- 3
uncouth; rude
- 4
colloquiallame; boring
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que não é lapidado, polido, etc.; bruto, rústico 2. feito sem capricho, grosseiro, malfeito 3. bobo, tonto
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tosco
- tosca feminine
- toscos masculine plural
- toscas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tosco?
- Brazil /ˈtos.ku/
- /ˈtoʃ.ku/
- Portugal /ˈtoʃ.ku/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tosco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tosco in Portuguese?
tosco appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).