fuoco

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Italian[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin focus (“hearth”).

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

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Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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

Further reading[edit]

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

Neapolitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin focus.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • 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[edit]

fuoco m (plural fuoche)

  1. fire
  2. fireplace, hearth

References[edit]

  • 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
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