foculare

Latin

Etymology 1

From focus (“fireplace”) +‎ -ulus (“diminutive suffix”) +‎ -āre (“relative suffix”).

Alternative forms

• focolāre, foculāris

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fo.kuˈlaː.re/, [fɔkʊˈɫ̪äːrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fo.kuˈla.re/, [fokuˈläːre]

Noun

foculāre n (genitive foculāris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) a fireplace, hearth

   Synonym: focus

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	foculāre	foculāria
Genitive	foculāris	foculārium
Dative	foculārī	foculāribus
Accusative	foculāre	foculāria
Ablative	foculārī	foculāribus
Vocative	foculāre	foculāria

Descendants

• Ligurian: fogoâ
• Old French: foolair
• Italian: focolare
• Lucchese: focalare
• Piedmontese: fuliér
• Romansch: föcler, fluêr
• Sicilian: fugularu, cufularu
• Venetian: fogoler

Etymology 2

Verb

fōculāre

1. inflection of fōculō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

References

• “foculāre” in volume 6, column 1, line 986 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fŏcŭlaris”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 651