Noun: foco
Gender: m
Hyphenation: fo‧co
| Singular m | foco |
| Plural m | focos |
Sample Sentences
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Pero el foco de mi lámpara no va a servir para ponerlo ahí.[…]Ay, pues porque el foco de mi lámpara se atornilla hacia abajo y el foco de ahí se atornilla hacia arriba. (But the ligh bulb of my [bedside] lamp won't work there [on the ceiling]. […] Well, because the ligh bulb of my lamp is screwed downwards and the ligh bulb there is screwed upwards.) [1975 September 1, Chespirito, “El foco [The light bulb]” (8:04 from the start), in Enrique Segoviano, director, El Chavo, season 1975, episode 95, spoken by Quico (Carlos Villagrán), Mexico City: Grupo Televisa, via Canal 2:]
Nouns inflected like foco
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin focus. Compare the inherited doublet fuego. See: Latin Nouns '
focus'.
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