English

Adjective

secco ‎(not comparable)

1. (art) dry

   Secco painting, or painting in secco, is painting on dry plaster, as distinguished from fresco painting, on wet or fresh plaster.

2. (music) dry – sparse accompaniment, staccato, without resonance

Noun

secco ‎(plural seccos)

1. (art) A work painted on dry plaster, as distinguished from a fresco.
   • 1987, James Black, Recent Advances in the Conservation and Analysis of Artifacts (page 289)

     The Roman frescoes are generally robust, but the Chinese and Egyptian seccos are inherently weak […]

Italian

Etymology

From Latin siccus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsekko]

Adjective

secco m ‎(feminine singular secca, masculine plural secchi, feminine plural secche)

1. dry
2. dried
3. thin
4. sharp

Synonyms

• (dry) asciutto
• (dried) disseccato
• (thin) magro, snello
• (sharp) brusco, asciutto

Antonyms

• (dry) bagnato
• (thin) grasso

Noun

secco m ‎(plural secchi)

1. dryland
2. dryness
3. drought

Synonyms

• (drought) siccità

Related terms

• secca
• seccamente
• secchezza
• seccaggine
• seccare
• seccume

Verb

secco

1. first-person singular present indicative of seccare

Anagrams

• cosce