fuego

From Latin focus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfweɡo/
• Syllabification: fue‧go
• Rhymes: -eɡo

fuego m

1. fire

• “fuego”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

• huego

Inherited from Old Spanish fuego, from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”).

fuego m

1. fire

• Elli Kohen, Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000) Ladino-English/English-Ladino Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary (Judeo-Spanish), New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 182
• Alegría Bendayán de Bendelac (1995) Diccionario del judeoespañol de los sefardíes del norte de Marruecos: Jaquetía tradicional y moderna, Caracas: Centro de Estudios Sefardíes de Caracas, →ISBN, page 283

From Late Latin focum, singular accusative of focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu͡eɡo/

fuego m (plural fuegos)

1. fire
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 63v:

     […] en ſemblança delas beſtias ſuujſta cuemo braſas de fuego encendidas e ſemblanca de lampades

     […] the appearance of the creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches

• Ladino: fuego
• Spanish: fuego

• huego (rare, chiefly obsolete)
• fogo (rare, obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish fuego, from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”). The form huego, which began to be used around 1500, was mostly replaced by the form starting with -f-.^[1] Compare Portuguese fogo. Cognate with English fuel. Compare also English focus. Doublet of foco, which is a borrowing from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfweɡo/ [ˈfwe.ɣ̞o]
  • Rhymes: -eɡo
• IPA^(key): [ˈɸweɣo], [ˈhweɣo] (nonstandard)
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• Syllabification: fue‧go

fuego m (plural fuegos)

1. fire

   Synonym: incendio

¡fuego!

1. (military) fire! (cry to order soldiers to start shooting)

• “fuego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024