focale

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focale

1. feminine singular of focal

Learned borrowing from New Latin focālis. Cf. fuoco and -ale.

• IPA^(key): /foˈka.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: fo‧cà‧le

focale m or f (plural focali)

1. focal

• focalizzare

• -cefalo, cefalo, cefalo-, facole, fecola

From fōc- (“throat”) +‎ -āle.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [foːˈkaː.ɫɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [foˈkaː.le]

fōcāle n (genitive fōcālis); third declension

1. a neckcloth, cravat worn by sick people

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

• >? Old French: foaille

• “focale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “focale”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers