tosca

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtos.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtos.ka]

From tosc +‎ -a.

tosca f (plural tosques)

1. deposit, incrustation, scale

   Synonym: incrustació

2. (dentistry) tartar
3. pumice

   Synonyms: pedra tosca, pumicita

4. (botany) cork (bark of the cork tree)

• toscar
• toscós
• tosquejar

tosca

1. feminine singular of tosc

• “tosca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From a substrate pre-Latin language, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoska̝/

tosca f (plural toscas)

1. soft stone

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tosca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tosca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

tosca f pl

1. plural of toisc

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tosca	thosca	dtosca
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈto.ska/
• Rhymes: -oska
• Hyphenation: tó‧sca

tosca f sg

1. feminine singular of tosco

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.ska/
• Rhymes: -ɔska
• Hyphenation: tò‧sca

tosca f sg

1. feminine singular of tosco

• Costa, Tasco, casto, costa, costà, scato-, scota

• toxa

From Proto-West Germanic *toskō, from Proto-Germanic *tuskô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoʃ.ʃɑ/

tosċa m

1. toad
2. frog

• *tosċanlēac

• tysċa

tosca

1. feminine singular of tosco

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoska/ [ˈt̪os.ka]
• Rhymes: -oska
• Syllabification: tos‧ca

tosca f (plural toscas)

1. (geology) tuff
2. (dental hygiene) tartar

   Synonym: sarro

tosca

1. feminine singular of tosco

• “tosco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28