fuoco

See also: Fuoco

Italian

Alternative forms

• foco (Tuscan or archaic)

Etymology

From Latin focus (“hearth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfwɔ.ko/

• Audio (IT):

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• Rhymes: -ɔko
• Hyphenation: fuò‧co

Noun

fuoco m (plural fuochi, 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. (by extension, poetic) lightning, thunderbolt
3. pothole, burner, ring (on a stove)
4. focus
5. (Switzerland) hearth
6. (in the plural) fireworks

Derived terms

• affocare
• antifuoco
• dare fuoco
• focace
• focale
• focato
• focheggiare
• fochista
• focone
• focoso
• fuoco fatuo
• infuocare
• sfocare
• sfocato

 

Related terms

• focaccia
• focolare
• fucile

 

Further reading

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

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin focus.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈfu͡oko/ (dialects with metaphonic diphthongization) IPA(key): [ˈfuəkɐ] (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈfwoːko] (Avellino) IPA(key): [ˈfwoːku] (Inner Campania) IPA(key): [ˈfweːkə] (Bari, Taranto) IPA(key): [ˈfuːkə] (Tavoliere, NE Calabria) IPA(key): [ˈfuːku] (Force, NW Calabria) IPA(key): /ˈfoko/ (dialects with Sabine metaphony) IPA(key): [ˈfoːkə] (Avezzano, S. Lazio, Inner Campania, Gargano) IPA(key): [ˈfoːku] (Morcone) IPA(key): /ˈfoko/ (dialects with syllabic isochrony) IPA(key): [ˈfoːkə] (Chieti) IPA(key): [ˈfau̯kə] (Peschici) IPA(key): /ˈfɔko/ (dialects without metaphony or isochrony) IPA(key): [ˈfɔːko] (Maratea) IPA(key): [ˈfɔːkə] (Pescara, Potenza)

Noun

fuoco m (plural fuoche)

1. fire
2. fireplace, hearth

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 354: “al fuoco” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “fuoco”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano