focar

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: fo‧car

Verb

focar (first-person singular present foco, first-person singular preterite foquei, past participle focado)

  1. (optics) (transitive) to focus (to cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point)
  2. to focus; to concentrate

Conjugation

Synonyms

Romanian

Etymology

From foc +‎ -ar or possibly Vulgar Latin *focārium, nominalization of the Late Latin adjective focārius, from Latin focus. Compare French foyer, from which the modern senses of the word were derived.

Noun

focar n (plural focare)

  1. (optics) focus
  2. (geometry) focus
  3. (archaic) pyre
    Synonym: rug
  4. (archaic, figuratively) calamity, disaster, misfortune
    Synonyms: calamitate, nenorocire
  5. (figuratively) hotbed
  6. (figuratively) focus, center
  7. furnace, hearth heating chamber
  8. firebox

Declension

Noun

focar m (plural focari)

  1. (archaic, popular) stoker, fireman
    Synonym: fochist

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