foc

• focu

From Latin focus. Compare Romanian foc.

foc n (plural focuri)

1. fire

• fucos
• fucurinã
• nfucari

• pirã

Inherited from Latin focus. Compare Occitan fòc. Doublet of focus, a borrowing from Latin.

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• Rhymes: -ɔk

foc m (plural focs)

1. fire
2. fire (act of shooting)
3. home

   Synonyms: llar, niu

• fogar
• fogós

• “foc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “foc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “foc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “foc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• fo (fou¹)

From clipping of English focus.

foc (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. (photography) focus

   out foc [Cantonese]  ―  au¹ fou¹   ―  to be out of focus (of a camera)

2. focus (concentration of attention)

foc (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. (photography) to focus
2. to focus one's attention; to concentrate

Borrowed from Dutch focke.

• IPA^(key): /fɔk/

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foc m (plural focs)

1. (nautical) jib (sail)

• “foc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

foc

1. (offensive, vulgar) fuck

From Latin focus.

foc n

1. fire

• fuec, fuoc

From Latin focus. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French fu.

foc m (oblique plural focs, nominative singular focs, nominative plural foc)

1. fireplace
2. fire

• Occitan: fuòc, fòc, fuec, hoec (Gascony), huec (Gascony)

Inherited from Latin focus. Compare Aromanian foc.

• IPA^(key): /fok/
• Rhymes: -ok

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foc n (plural focuri)

1. fire, blaze

• foc de frumos
• da foc (la)
• focos
• înfoca
• înfocat

• focar