fuoco

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Italian

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Alternative forms

  • foco (Tuscan or archaic)

Etymology

From Latin focus (“hearth”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfwɔ.ko/
  • Audio (IT):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔko
  • Hyphenation: fuò‧co

Noun

fuoco m (plural fuochi or (Old Italian) fòcora/fuòcora, diminutive fochétto/fuochétto or fochettìno or focherèllo/fuocherèllo or focherellìno or (uncommon) focolìno, augmentative focóne/fuocóne or focaróne)

  1. fire
    Synonym: (obsolete, literary) igne
  2. torment
    • 13th century, Cielo d'Alcamo, Rosa fresca aulentissima‎, lines 1–3; collected in Antologia della poesia italiana (La biblioteca di Repubblica), volume 1, Rome: Casa Editrice L'Espresso, 2024:
      «Rosa fresca aulentisima ch’apari inver’ la state, / le donne ti disiano, pulzell’ e maritate: / tràgemi d’este focora, se t’este a bolontate
      O luxuriant, most sweet-smelling rose, who appear in Summer: women, both maidens and married ones, desire you; take me away from these torments, if such is your will
  3. (by extension, poetic) lightning, thunderbolt
  4. pothole, burner, ring (on a stove)
  5. focus
  6. (Switzerland) hearth
  7. (in the plural) fireworks

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 354: “al fuoco” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Further reading

  • fuoco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin focus.

Pronunciation

Dialectal forms
  • IPA(key): /ˈfu͡oko/ (dialects with metaphonic diphthongization)
  • IPA(key): /ˈfoko/ (dialects with Sabine metaphony)
    • IPA(key): (Avezzano, S. Lazio, Inner Campania, Gargano)
    • IPA(key): (Morcone)
  • IPA(key): /ˈfoko/ (dialects with syllabic isochrony)
  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔko/ (dialects without metaphony or isochrony)

Noun

fuoco m (plural fuoche)

  1. fire
  2. fireplace, hearth

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 354: “al fuoco” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “fuoco”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano‎
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