focacium

Latin

Alternative forms

focācia, fogātia f (att. 846 CE, France)

Etymology

Nominalization of the neuter of ellipsis of (panis) focācius (“(bread) of the hearth”). Attested in the Vetus Itala.^[1]

Noun

focācium n (genitive focāciī or focācī); second declension (Late Latin)

bread baked under ash

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	focācium	focācia
genitive	focāciī focācī¹	focāciōrum
dative	focāciō	focāciīs
accusative	focācium	focācia
ablative	focāciō	focāciīs
vocative	focācium	focācia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

(All via the plural focācia, made into a feminine noun.)

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: focaccia, cofaccia (obsolete, colloquial, Tuscan)
  - → English: focaccia
  - → Lithuanian: fokačija
  - → Sardinian: covazza
  - → Spanish: focaccia
- Neapolitan: focazza, ficazza
- Sicilian: fucazza, fugazza
North Italian:
- Ligurian: fogassa
  - → Italian: fugassa
- Ladin: fogacia
- Piedmontese: fogassa, foassa
- Venetan: fogassa
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: fogaça
  - Catalan: fogassa
- Old French: fouace, fouache (northern), foace
  - French: fouace
  - Norman: fouache
- Old Occitan: fogatza, fogassa, fogasa
  - Occitan: fogaça, fogassa
  - → Middle French: fougasse, foucasse
  - French: fougasse
    - → English: fougasse
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: focaza, fogasa
- Asturian: fogaza
- Old Galician-Portuguese: fogaça, fugaça
  - Galician: fogaza, fugaza
  - Portuguese: fogaça
- Spanish: hogaza

→ Byzantine Greek: πογάτσα (pogátsa)
- Greek: μπουγάτσα (bougátsa)
- → Albanian: pogaçe
- → South Proto-Slavic: *pogača
  - Bulgarian: пога́ча (pogáča)
  - Macedonian: погача (pogača)
  - Serbo-Croatian: pògača / по̀гача
  - Slovene: pogáča (tonal orthography)
  - → Hungarian: pogácsa
    - → German: Pogatsche
  - → Romanian: pogace
- → Ottoman Turkish: پوغاچه (poğaça)
  - Turkish: poğaça

References

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1007: “la focaccia (la schiacciata)” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fŏcācium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 648