fungo
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fungo (plural fungos or fungoes)
- (baseball) A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
- The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.
- 2007 January 25, Murray Chass, “Yanks Hope to Get a Jump in China”, in New York Times[1]:
- Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to […] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids.
- (baseball, informal) A fungo bat.
- He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]fungo (third-person singular simple present fungos, present participle fungoing, simple past and past participle fungoed)
- (baseball) To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
Anagrams
[edit]Aragonese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]fungo
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fungo (accusative singular fungon, plural fungoj, accusative plural fungojn)
See also
[edit]Galician
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin fungus.
Noun
[edit]fungo m (plural fungos)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]fungo
- first-person singular present indicative of fungar
- (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of fungar
Further reading
[edit]- “fungo” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
- “fungo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]fungo (plural fungos)
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]fungo m (plural funghi)
Related terms
[edit]- fungaia
- funghetto
- funghicolo
- funghicoltura
- funghire
- fungicida
- fungiforme
- fungino
- fungistatico
- fungivoro
- fungoide
- fungone
- fungoso
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]fungo
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]fungō
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: fun‧go
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]fungo m (plural fungos)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]fungo
Swahili
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From -funga (“to fast; to tie up”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fungo class V (plural mafungo class VI)
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