focar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /foˈka(ʁ)/ [foˈka(h)]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /foˈka(ɾ)/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /foˈka(ʁ)/ [foˈka(χ)]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /foˈka(ɻ)/

  • Hyphenation: fo‧car

Verb

focar (first-person singular present foco, first-person singular preterite foquei, past participle focado)

  1. (optics) (transitive) to focus (to cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point)
  2. to focus; to concentrate

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Romanian

Etymology

foc + -ar or possibly Vulgar Latin *focārium, nominalization of the Late Latin adjective focārius, from Latin focus. Compare French foyer, from which the modern senses of the word were derived.

Noun

focar n (plural focare)

  1. (optics) focus
  2. (geometry) focus
  3. (archaic) pyre
  4. (archaic, figuratively) calamity, disaster, misfortune
  5. (figuratively) hotbed
  6. (figuratively) focus, center
  7. furnace, hearth heating chamber
  8. firebox

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Noun

focar m (plural focari)

  1. (archaic, popular) stoker, fireman

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