Etymology

claro-obscuro

Spanish claro-obscuro ← Italian chiaroscuro ← French clair-obscur
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  1. French · derived fromclair-obscur
  2. Italian · derived fromchiaroscuro
  3. Spanish · borrowed fromclaro-obscuro
  4. English todayclaro-obscuro

From Spanish claro-obscuro, from Italian chiaroscuro under influence from French clair-obscur.

Words from the same roots

Italianchiaroscuro all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.