frisco

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English

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Etymology

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Perhaps a blend of frisk (brisk and lively movement)Italian fresco.

Noun

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frisco (plural friscos or friscoes)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of frisk (brisk and lively movement)

Neapolitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *friscum.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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frisco (feminine singular fresca, masculine plural frischi, feminine plural fresche)

  1. fresh
  2. cool

References

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  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1038: “fresca; fresco” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “frisco”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano