# foco
## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔko/ [ˈfɔ.kʊ]
* Rhymes: -ɔko
* Hyphenation: fo‧co

### Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps from oco (“hollow”), but then the /f/ would be totally inexplicable; alternatively, perhaps from a substrate language.

#### Adjective

foco (feminine foca, masculine plural focos, feminine plural focas)
* hollow
    Synonyms: foncho, oco
* deep
    Synonym: fondo

##### Derived terms

* foca
* fócaro
* paifoco

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin focus. Doublet of fogo.

#### Noun

foco m (plural focos)
* lantern
    Synonym: farol
* flashlight, torch
    Synonym: lanterna

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “foco”, 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), “foco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “foco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ.ko/, (Tuscany) /ˈfɔ.ho/
* Rhymes: -ɔko, (Tuscany) -ɔho
* Hyphenation: fò‧co

### Noun

foco m (plural fochi)
* (archaic except in Tuscany and central Italy) Alternative form of fuoco

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfo.koː/, [ˈfɔkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfo.ko/, [ˈfɔːko]

### Noun

focō
* dative/ablative singular of focus

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ.ku/
* Rhymes: -ɔku
* Hyphenation: fo‧co

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin focus. Doublet of fogo.

#### Noun

foco m (plural focos)
* (optics) focus (point at which rays of light converge)
    Synonym: ponto de convergência
* (geometry) focus (point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge)
* (photography) focus (convergence of light on the photographic medium)
* (epidemiology) the source of transmission of a disease
* focus (concentration of attention)
    Synonyms: concentração, atenção
* objective; intent
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:objetivo
* headquarters
    Synonyms: centro, sede
* (regional) lamp
    Synonym: lâmpada

##### Related terms

* enfocação
* enfocado
* enfocar
* focagem
* focal
* focalização
* focalizado
* focalizar
* focar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

foco
* first-person singular present indicative of focar

### References

* “foco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “foco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfoko]

### Noun

foco f
* vocative singular of focă

## San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo
### Noun

foco
* Obsolete spelling of joco.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin focus. Compare the inherited doublet fuego.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfoko/ [ˈfo.ko]
* Rhymes: -oko
* Syllabification: fo‧co

### Noun

foco m (plural focos)
* spotlight
    Synonym: reflector
** focus (place or spot where something is focused)
    Synonym: enfoque
* (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, South America) light bulb
    Synonyms: bombilla, bombillo, ampolleta
** (Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Cono Sur) headlight
    Synonym: faro
** (Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic) flashlight; torch
    Synonyms: linterna, lámpara
** (Honduras, Nicaragua, Cuba, figurative) eyes
* (Ecuador, youth slang) shame
* (Bolivia) Man with hair a little longer than a buzz cut.

### Adjective

foco (feminine foca, masculine plural focos, feminine plural focas)
* (Ecuador, youth slang) very flamboyant
foco m or f (masculine and feminine plural focos)
* (Bolivia, of a person) having hair a little longer than a buzz cut

#### Derived terms

* autofoco
* foco de atención

#### Related terms

* enfocar
* enfoque

#### Descendants

* → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: joco, jokò, foco (obsolete)

### Further reading

* “foco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “foco”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
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