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Latin
Etymology 1
From fōculum (“device for warming”) + -ō, -āre (verb-forming suffix). Cf. Latin foveō (“to warm, cherish, relieve”), fōmentum (“soothing application, remedy”).
Pronunciation
Verb
fōculō (present infinitive fōculāre, perfect active fōculāvī, supine fōculātum); first conjugation
- to cherish, resuscitate, refresh, revive
Conjugation
Etymology 2
Noun
foculō
- dative/ablative singular of foculus
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “foveō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 237
- “fōculō” in volume 6, column 1, line 986 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
Further reading
- “foculo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- foculo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.