fungo

English

Etymology

fun + go

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈfʌŋɡoʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌŋɡoʊ

Noun

fungo (plural fungoes)

  1. (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:
      Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to [] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids.
  2. (baseball, informal) A fungo bat.
    He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.

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Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin fungus (mushroom).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfunɡo/
  • Hyphenation: fun‧go
  • Rhymes: -unɡo

Noun

fungo (accusative singular fungon, plural fungoj, accusative plural fungojn)

  1. fungus

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Interlingua

Noun

fungo (plural fungos)

  1. fungus

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fungus.

Noun

fungo m (plural funghi)

  1. mushroom, fungus, toadstool

See also

Verb

fungo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fungere

Latin

Noun

fungō

  1. dative singular of fungus
  2. ablative singular of fungus

Portuguese

fungos

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal, Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfũ.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfũ.ɡo/
  • Hyphenation: fun‧go

Etymology 1

From Latin fungus, originally sfungus.

Noun

fungo m (plural fungos)

  1. fungus
See also

Verb

fungo

  1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of fungar

Swahili

Etymology

From -funga.

Noun

fungo (ma class, plural mafungo)

  1. (Islam) period of fasting
  2. (finance) bond
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