fungi

See also: Fungi, fungí, and fungi-

English

WOTD – 2 April 2022

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fungī, from fungus + -ī (suffix forming the nominative or vocative plurals of most second-declension nouns ending in -us).

Pronunciation

There are multiple pronunciations in current English use. More American dictionaries favour the pronunciation /ˈfʌndʒaɪ/ or /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/, while more British dictionaries favour the pronunciation /ˈfʌŋɡiː/ or /ˈfʌndʒiː/. However, all four pronunciations are in use in both countries.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: fŭnʹjī, fŭngʹgī; IPA^(key): /ˈfʌnd͡ʒaɪ/, /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/, /ˈfʌnd͡ʒiː/, /ˈfʌŋɡiː/

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• Rhymes: -ʌndʒi

Noun

fungi

2. (pathology) Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.
3. plural of fungus

Derived terms

• fungi imperfecti

Etymology 2

See fungee. Sense 2 (“style of folk and popular music”) is apparently from the fact that the music is a blend of different musical instruments and styles, just as the dish (sense 1) is a blend of different flavours.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfuːnd͡ʒi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfund͡ʒi/
• (Caribbean) IPA^(key): /ˈfuːnd͡ʒiː/
• Hyphenation: fun‧gi

Noun

fungi (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of fungee (“a cornmeal dish from the Caribbean, usually made with okra and served with salt fish, shellfish, or chicken”)
2. (by extension, music) A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of banjo, guitar, ukulele, and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm.

   Synonyms: quelbe, scratch

Translations

style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands

Further reading

• cou-cou on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fungi (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

fungi

1. plural of fungus

Indonesian

Noun

fungi (first-person possessive fungiku, second-person possessive fungimu, third-person possessive funginya)

1. fungi

Italian

Verb

fungi

1. inflection of fungere:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfun.ɡiː/, [ˈfʊŋɡiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfun.d͡ʒi/, [ˈfun̠ʲd͡ʒi]

Etymology 1

Noun

fungī m

1. inflection of fungus:
   1. genitive/locative singular
   2. nominative/vocative plural

Etymology 2

Verb

fungī

1. present active infinitive of fungor

References

• fungi in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fungi.

Noun

fungi m pl (plural only)

1. fungus

Declension

declension of fungi (plural only)

	plural
m gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(niște) fungi	fungii
genitive/dative	(unor) fungi	fungilor
vocative	fungilor