From boscot, from bossu (“hunchback”).

• IPA^(key): /bɔs.ko/

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bosco m (plural boscos)

1. (nautical) boatswain, skipper

• “bosco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin boscus, borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔs.ko/^[2][1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔsko
  • Hyphenation: bò‧sco
  • Homophone: Bosco
• IPA^(key): (regional^[1]) /ˈbos.ko/^[1]

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  • Rhymes: -osko
  • Hyphenation: bó‧sco

bosco m (plural boschi)

1. woodland

• → Maltese: bosk

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔs.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔs.ko]

boscō

1. dative/ablative singular of boscus