foculo
Latin
Etymology 1
From fōculum (“device for warming”) + -ō, -āre (verb-forming suffix). Cf. Latin foveō (“to warm, cherish, relieve”), fōmentum (“soothing application, remedy”).
Alternative forms
- fōculor (deponent, v.l. in Varro)
- fōcilō (post-Classical)
- fōcillō (medieval MSS only, perh. reanalysed as formed from fōcillum)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfoː.kʊ.ɫoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɔː.ku.lo]
Verb
fōculō (present infinitive fōculāre, perfect active fōculāvī, supine fōculātum); first conjugation
- to cherish, resuscitate, refresh, revive
Conjugation
Conjugation of fōculō (first conjugation)
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | fōculō | fōculās | fōculat | fōculāmus | fōculātis | fōculant | ||||||
| imperfect | fōculābam | fōculābās | fōculābat | fōculābāmus | fōculābātis | fōculābant | |||||||
| future | fōculābō | fōculābis | fōculābit | fōculābimus | fōculābitis | fōculābunt | |||||||
| perfect | fōculāvī | fōculāvistī | fōculāvit | fōculāvimus | fōculāvistis | fōculāvērunt, fōculāvēre | |||||||
| pluperfect | fōculāveram | fōculāverās | fōculāverat | fōculāverāmus | fōculāverātis | fōculāverant | |||||||
| future perfect | fōculāverō | fōculāveris | fōculāverit | fōculāverimus | fōculāveritis | fōculāverint | |||||||
| passive | present | fōculor | fōculāris, fōculāre |
fōculātur | fōculāmur | fōculāminī | fōculantur | ||||||
| imperfect | fōculābar | fōculābāris, fōculābāre |
fōculābātur | fōculābāmur | fōculābāminī | fōculābantur | |||||||
| future | fōculābor | fōculāberis, fōculābere |
fōculābitur | fōculābimur | fōculābiminī | fōculābuntur | |||||||
| perfect | fōculātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | fōculātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| future perfect | fōculātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | fōculem | fōculēs | fōculet | fōculēmus | fōculētis | fōculent | ||||||
| imperfect | fōculārem | fōculārēs | fōculāret | fōculārēmus | fōculārētis | fōculārent | |||||||
| perfect | fōculāverim | fōculāverīs | fōculāverit | fōculāverīmus | fōculāverītis | fōculāverint | |||||||
| pluperfect | fōculāvissem | fōculāvissēs | fōculāvisset | fōculāvissēmus | fōculāvissētis | fōculāvissent | |||||||
| passive | present | fōculer | fōculēris, fōculēre |
fōculētur | fōculēmur | fōculēminī | fōculentur | ||||||
| imperfect | fōculārer | fōculārēris, fōculārēre |
fōculārētur | fōculārēmur | fōculārēminī | fōculārentur | |||||||
| perfect | fōculātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | fōculātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | fōculā | — | — | fōculāte | — | ||||||
| future | — | fōculātō | fōculātō | — | fōculātōte | fōculantō | |||||||
| passive | present | — | fōculāre | — | — | fōculāminī | — | ||||||
| future | — | fōculātor | fōculātor | — | — | fōculantor | |||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | fōculāre | fōculārī | fōculāns | — | |||||||||
| future | fōculātūrum esse | fōculātum īrī | fōculātūrus | fōculandus | |||||||||
| perfect | fōculāvisse | fōculātum esse | — | fōculātus | |||||||||
| future perfect | — | fōculātum fore | — | — | |||||||||
| perfect potential | fōculātūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| fōculandī | fōculandō | fōculandum | fōculandō | fōculātum | fōculātū | ||||||||
Etymology 2
Noun
foculō
- dative/ablative singular of foculus
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “foveō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 237
- “fōculō” in volume 6, column 1, line 986 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
Further reading
- “foculo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- foculo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.