fakó
See also: fako
Hungarian
Etymology
From fa (“wood”) + -kó (diminutive suffix). Originally meant “made of wood”, later it developed the sense of “resembling the colour of wood”, and eventually “plain, featureless”.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfɒkoː]
- Hyphenation: fa‧kó
- Rhymes: -koː
Adjective
fakó (comparative fakóbb, superlative legfakóbb)
- pale, wan (having a light color of low saturation)
- Synonym: halvány
- faded, discolored (that has lost some of its former color)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | fakó | fakók |
| accusative | fakót | fakókat |
| dative | fakónak | fakóknak |
| instrumental | fakóval | fakókkal |
| causal-final | fakóért | fakókért |
| translative | fakóvá | fakókká |
| terminative | fakóig | fakókig |
| essive-formal | fakóként | fakókként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | fakóban | fakókban |
| superessive | fakón | fakókon |
| adessive | fakónál | fakóknál |
| illative | fakóba | fakókba |
| sublative | fakóra | fakókra |
| allative | fakóhoz | fakókhoz |
| elative | fakóból | fakókból |
| delative | fakóról | fakókról |
| ablative | fakótól | fakóktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
fakóé | fakóké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
fakóéi | fakókéi |
References
- fakó 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
- fakó in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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