fuso

Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 18th century (the derivative parafuso (“screw”) since the 13th century). From Latin fūsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfusʊ]

Noun

fuso m (plural fusos)

1. spindle
   • 1911, Francisco Portela Pérez, O pé da lareira:

     Fiaba a seña Marica unha boa mazaroca de liño: mollaba nos lábeos os dous pormeiros dedos da man esquerda e tirando cara abaixo faguía un fío daquel manoxo de estrigas, mentras que ca dereita enredábaio no fuso, que bailaba de demoro.

     lady Mary was spinning a large spindleful of flax: she moistened the fist two finger of her left hand on her lips and, pulling down, she was making a thread of that handful of stricks, while with her right hand she was winding it in the spindle, which danced slowly

2. threaded axis of a wine press
3. other similar threaded shafts

Derived terms

• fuso horario

Related terms

• parafuso

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “perafuso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “perafuso”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fuso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fuso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fuso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin fūsus, past participle of fundō (“to pour out”), from Proto-Italic *hundō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.zo/
• Rhymes: -uzo
• Hyphenation: fù‧so

Participle

fuso (feminine fusa, masculine plural fusi, feminine plural fuse)

1. past participle of fondere

Adjective

fuso (feminine fusa, masculine plural fusi, feminine plural fuse)

1. melted
2. cast
3. (informal, figurative) worn-out, exhausted
4. (possibly slang) gone crazy, foolish, insane

   Synonyms: fuso di cervello, impazzito, pazzo, matto

   • 2000 June 17, “La straordinaria potenza di Goku” (15:39 from the start), in Dragon Ball Z, episode 66, spoken by Recoome (Stefano Albertini), dubbing of ケタ外(はず)れの強(つよ)さ！！ 伝説(でんせつ)の超(スーパー)サイヤ人孫(じんそん)悟(ご)空(くう):

     Tu devi essere completamente fuso... ridi quando sai benissimo che stai per avere una lezione!

     You must be completely insane... you laugh even though you're well aware you're about to be getting taught a lesson!

Derived terms

• formaggio fuso (“processed cheese”)

Etymology 2

From Latin fūsus, of unclear origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.zo/, (traditional) /ˈfu.so/
• Rhymes: -uzo, (traditional) -uso
• Hyphenation: fù‧so

Noun

fuso m (plural fusi m or (archaic except in fixed expressions) fusa f)

1. (spinning, machinery) spindle
2. (heraldry) fusil

Usage notes

• The archaic feminine plural fusa is only used in expressions:

  fare le fusa ― to purr

Derived terms

• fusa (“purr”, noun)
• fuso orario (“time zone”)

Descendants

• → English: fuse

Latin

Noun

fūsō

1. dative/ablative singular of fūsus

Participle

fūsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fūsus

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin fūsus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.zu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.zu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.zo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.zu/

• Hyphenation: fu‧so
• Homophone: fuzo

Noun

fuso m (plural fusos)

1. (spinning) spindle (rod used for spinning and winding thread)
2. clipping of fuso horário

Derived terms

• fuso horário

Further reading

• “fuso”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fuso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026