The word fresco ("fresh") involves working with fresh colored chalk (a kind of cement or plaster). It's quite a difficult technique, because you paint and plaster at the same time. Later, fresco secco, a paint made of caseine and putty, was developed to put on a dry plaster wall.
Al fresco in Italian means "in the fresh air (outdoors)" in English.
Al fresco dining in Italian and Spanish means dining "outside" in English.
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"Cream cheese" in English is formaggio fresco e burrosoin Italian.
Fresco is the same in English and Italian. The masculine singular Italian loan word means "cool" or "fresh" as an adjective and "coolness," "freshness" or "mural painted into wet plaster" as a noun in English. Regardless of meaning or use, the pronunciation remains "FREY-sko" in Italian.
"Cool purée" is an English equivalent of the Italian phrase purè al fresco. The masculine singular phrase also translates as "purée in the fresh air" or "purée in the outdoors" in English. The pronunciation will be "poo-REH al FREH-sko" in Pisan Italian.
The Italian word "fresco" is translated "fresque" (feminine noun) in French.
When translated from English to Italian a raccoon is a procione
Caffè fresco is an Italian equivalent of the English phrase "fresh coffee." The masculine singular noun and adjective translate literally by word order into English as "coffee fresh" since Italian typically has the adjective follow its noun, not precede it as English does. The pronunciation will be "kaf-FEH FREY-sko" in Italian.
Mangiando al fresco is a literal Italian equivalent of the English phrase "eating outdoors." The pronunciation of the present progressive prepositional phrase -- which translates literally as "eating in the fresh air" -- will be "man-DJAN-do al FREY-sko" in Italian.
"Out" in English is fuori in Italian.
"About" in English is circa in Italian.