fungo

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English

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fungo (plural fungos or fungoes)

  1. (baseball) A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
    The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.
    • 2007 January 25, Murray Chass, “Yanks Hope to Get a Jump in China”, in New York Times‎:
      Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to […] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids.
  2. (baseball, informal) A fungo bat.
    He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.

Derived terms

Verb

fungo (third-person singular simple present fungos, present participle fungoing, simple past and past participle fungoed)

  1. (baseball) To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin fungus.

Noun

fungo

  1. mushroom

Esperanto

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fungus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fungo (accusative singular fungon, plural fungoj, accusative plural fungojn)

  1. fungus

See also

Galician

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin fungus.

Noun

fungo m (plural fungos)

  1. fungus

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fungo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fungar
  2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of fungar

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

fungo (plural fungos)

  1. fungus

Italian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
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From Latin fungus.

Noun

fungo m (plural funghi)

  1. mushroom
  2. fungus
See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fungo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fungere

Latin

Noun

fungō

  1. dative/ablative singular of fungus

Portuguese

 fungo on Portuguese Wikipedia
fungos

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: fun‧go

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fungus.

Noun

fungo m (plural fungos)

  1. fungus

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fungo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fungar

Swahili

Etymology

From -funga (“to fast; to tie up”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fungo (ma class, plural mafungo)

  1. (Islam) period of fasting
  2. (finance) bond
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