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 or (Old Italian) fòcora/fuòcora, 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. torment
   • 13^th century, Cielo d'Alcamo, Rosa fresca aulentissima‎^[1], lines 1–3; collected in Antologia della poesia italiana (La biblioteca di Repubblica), volume 1, Rome: Casa Editrice L'Espresso, 2024:

     «Rosa fresca aulentis[s]ima ch’apari inver’ la state, / le donne ti disiano, pulzell’ e maritate: / tràgemi d’este focora, se t’este a bolontate

     O luxuriant, most sweet-smelling rose, who appear in Summer: women, both maidens and married ones, desire you; take me away from these torments, if such is your will

3. (by extension, poetic) lightning, thunderbolt
4. pothole, burner, ring (on a stove)
5. focus
6. (Switzerland) hearth
7. (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

Dialectal forms

• 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^[2]