foci
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfəʊ.kaɪ/, IPA(key): /ˈfəʊ.saɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfoʊ.kaɪ/, IPA(key): /ˈfoʊ.saɪ/
Noun
foci
- plural of focus
Usage notes
Both the "hard C" and "soft C" pronunciations are accepted. Although focus has C followed by a non-frontal vowel and is thus universally pronounced with a "hard C", there is a grey area for pronouncing the plural form foci. Under normal orthography rules, the C should be transmuted due to it being followed by one of the three frontal vowels (e, i, and y), but the "hard C" pronunciation is also valid due to this word being the plural of a word that is strictly pronounced with a hard C.
Anagrams
- FICO, coif, fico
Hungarian
Etymology
First attested in 1901. Clipping and -ci diminutive of futball (“soccer”)[1] (the u changed to o).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfot͡si]
- Hyphenation: fo‧ci
- Rhymes: -t͡si
Noun
foci (usually uncountable, plural focik)
- (colloquial) soccer
- Synonyms: futball, labdarúgás
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | foci | focik |
accusative | focit | focikat |
dative | focinak | fociknak |
instrumental | focival | focikkal |
causal-final | fociért | focikért |
translative | focivá | focikká |
terminative | fociig | focikig |
essive-formal | fociként | focikként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | fociban | focikban |
superessive | focin | focikon |
adessive | focinál | fociknál |
illative | fociba | focikba |
sublative | focira | focikra |
allative | focihoz | focikhoz |
elative | fociból | focikból |
delative | fociról | focikról |
ablative | focitól | fociktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular | focié | fociké |
non-attributive possessive - plural | fociéi | focikéi |
Possessive forms of foci | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | focim | focijaim |
2nd person sing. | focid | focijaid |
3rd person sing. | focija | focijai |
1st person plural | focink | focijaink |
2nd person plural | focitok | focijaitok |
3rd person plural | focijuk | focijaik |
Derived terms
- focis
- focista
- focizik
Compound words
- focilabda
- focipálya
References
- foci in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
- foci in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfo.t͡ʃi/
- Rhymes: -otʃi
- Hyphenation: fó‧ci
Noun
foci m
- plural of foce
Anagrams
- fico, fico-
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.kiː/, [ˈfɔkiː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.t͡ʃi/, [ˈfɔːt͡ʃi]
Noun
focī
- inflection of focus:
- nominative/vocative plural
- genitive singular
References
- foci 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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfot͡ʃʲ]
Noun
foci f
- inflection of focă:
- indefinite plural
- indefinite genitive/dative singular