fungo

English

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfʌŋɡoʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋɡoʊ

Noun

fungo (plural fungos or fungoes)

1. (baseball) A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.

   The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.

   • 2007 January 25, Murray Chass, “Yanks Hope to Get a Jump in China”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to […] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids.

2. (baseball, informal) A fungo bat.

   He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.

Derived terms

• fungo bat

Verb

fungo (third-person singular simple present fungos, present participle fungoing, simple past and past participle fungoed)

1. (baseball) To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.

Anagrams

• unfog

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin fungus.

Noun

fungo

1. mushroom

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fungus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfunɡo/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -unɡo
• Hyphenation: fun‧go

Noun

fungo (accusative singular fungon, plural fungoj, accusative plural fungojn)

1. fungus

See also

• ĉampinjono

Galician

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin fungus.

Noun

fungo m (plural fungos)

1. fungus

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fungo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fungar
2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of fungar

Further reading

• “fungo” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “fungo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Interlingua

Noun

fungo (plural fungos)

1. fungus

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfun.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -unɡo
• Hyphenation: fùn‧go

Etymology 1

From Latin fungus.

Noun

fungo m (plural funghi)

1. mushroom
2. fungus

Related terms

• fungaia
• funghetto
• funghicolo
• funghicoltura
• funghire
• fungicida
• fungiforme
• fungino
• fungistatico
• fungivoro
• fungoide
• fungone
• fungoso

See also

• micologia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fungo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fungere

Latin

Noun

fungō

1. dative/ablative singular of fungus

Portuguese

fungos

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfũ.ɡu/

• Hyphenation: fun‧go

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fungus.

Noun

fungo m (plural fungos)

1. fungus

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fungo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fungar

Swahili

Etymology

From -funga (“to fast; to tie up”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

fungo class V (plural mafungo class VI)

1. (Islam) period of fasting
2. (finance) bond