Noun: locofoco
| Singular | locofoco |
| Plural | locofocos |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like locofoco
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *stel-der.
3. Proto-Italic *stlokos?
4. Old Latin stlocus
5. Latin locus
6. Latin focus
7. English locofoco
8. From Latin locus (“place; cause”) and focus (“hearth; fire”), although possibly prompted by misunderstanding the prefix of locomotive (itself from locus) as instead meaning something like self- or auto-. In reference to the NY political faction, derived from the use of locofoco matches to light candles and continue a meeting the rival Tammany Hall faction had attempted to end by killing the meeting place's gaslights.
9. Often folk etymologized to derive from Spanish loco (“crazy”). See: Latin Nouns '
locus'.